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Ideas for Slavoj Zizek, Baron de Montesquieu and Anon (Dan)
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21 ideas
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
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20003
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Slaves are not members of the society, so no law can forbid them to run away [Montesquieu]
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20000
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Slavery is entirely bad; the master abandons the virtues, and they are pointless in the slave [Montesquieu]
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20006
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The demand for slavery is just the masters' demand for luxury [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 3. Free speech
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20009
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Freedom of speech and writing, within the law, is essential to preserve liberty [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
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19994
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Freedom in society is ability to do what is right, and not having to do what is wrong [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
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19981
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No one even thinks of equality in monarchies and despotism; they all want superiority [Montesquieu]
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19991
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Equality is not command by everyone or no one, but command and obedience among equals [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 2. Political equality
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19990
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Democracy is corrupted by lack of equality, or by extreme equality (between rulers and ruled) [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
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19983
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Democracies may sometimes need to restrict equality [Montesquieu]
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19982
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Some equality can be achieved by social categories, combined with taxes and poor relief [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law
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19959
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Prior to positive laws there is natural equity, of obedience, gratitude, dependence and merit [Montesquieu]
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19960
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Sensation gives animals natural laws, but knowledge can make them break them [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
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20002
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The death penalty is permissible, because its victims enjoyed the protection of that law [Montesquieu]
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20010
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If religion teaches determinism, penalties must be severe; if free will, then that is different [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / d. Non-combatants
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20001
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The only right victors have over captives is the protection of the former [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
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19973
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The clergy are essential to a monarchy, but dangerous in a republic [Montesquieu]
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19987
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Religion has the most influence in despotic states, and reinforces veneration for the ruler [Montesquieu]
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20011
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Religion can support the state when the law fails to do so [Montesquieu]
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20004
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French slavery was accepted because it was the best method of religious conversion [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
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19979
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In monarchies education ennobles people, and in despotisms it debases them [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
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19957
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Teaching is the best practice of the general virtue that leads us to love everyone [Montesquieu]
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