Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Baruch de Spinoza and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
7827 Spinoza wanted democracy based on individual rights, and is thus the first modern political philosopher [Stewart,M on Spinoza]
19926 The sovereignty has absolute power over citizens [Spinoza]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 3. Alienating rights
19918 Forming a society meant following reason, and giving up dangerous appetites and mutual harm [Spinoza]
19919 People only give up their rights, and keep promises, if they hope for some greater good [Spinoza]
19921 Once you have given up your rights, there is no going back [Spinoza]
19925 In democracy we don't abandon our rights, but transfer them to the majority of us [Spinoza]
19928 No one, in giving up their power and right, ceases to be a human being [Spinoza]
19929 Everyone who gives up their rights must fear the recipients of them [Spinoza]
19932 The early Hebrews, following Moses, gave up their rights to God alone [Spinoza]
19794 If we all give up all of our rights together to the community, we will always support one another [Rousseau]
7241 In society man loses natural liberty, but gains a right to civil liberty and property [Rousseau]
19806 We alienate to society only what society needs - but society judges that, not us [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
19777 Persuading other people that some land was 'owned' was the beginning of society [Rousseau]
19782 What else could property arise from, but the labour people add to it? [Rousseau]
19781 Land cultivation led to a general right of ownership, administered justly [Rousseau]
19754 If we have a natural right to property, what exactly does 'belonging to' mean? [Rousseau]
19799 Private property must always be subordinate to ownership by the whole community [Rousseau]