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HoP 409 - One to Rule Them All - Jean Bodin

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Bodan's Idea of the Unity of Sovereignty

Bodan's absolutist approach to sovereignty allowed him to make this breakthrough. For him, all authority lies ultimately with the sovereign and everyone else is on a par in being a subject. The full implications of Bodan's ideas would not be clear for quite some time. But he did have a great impact on his contemporaries and immediate successors.

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