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Single Idea 23153
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people
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Full Idea
At a later stage in the development of civilization, a new kind of loyalty began to be developed, based on identity of creed. …Its military strength was displayed in Islam …and later loyalities of Catholics or Protestants could outweigh nationality.
Gist of Idea
Gradually loyalty to a creed increased, which could even outweigh nationality
Source
Bertrand Russell (Authority and the Individual [1949], 1)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Authority and the Individual' [Unwin 1977], p.15
A Reaction
[compressed] The only examples of creed loyalty that come to mind are religious. With increased migration in the modern world the phenomenon of divided loyalties has grown. Can a political theory cope with divided loyalties?
The
18 ideas
from 'Authority and the Individual'
23152
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Increasingly war expands communities, and unifies them through fear
[Russell]
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23153
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Gradually loyalty to a creed increased, which could even outweigh nationality
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23151
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A monarch is known to everyone in the group, and can thus unite large groups
[Russell]
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23154
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We divide mankind into friend and foe, and cooperate with one and compete with the other
[Russell]
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23155
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In early societies the leaders needed cohesion, but the rest just had to obey
[Russell]
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23156
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The economic and political advantages of great size seem to have no upper limit
[Russell]
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23157
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Government has a negative purpose, to prevent trouble, and a positive aim of realising our desires
[Russell]
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23162
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Managers are just as remote from workers under nationalisation as under capitalism
[Russell]
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23160
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Being a slave of society is hardly better than being a slave of a despot
[Russell]
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23158
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Slavery began the divorce between the work and the purposes of the worker
[Russell]
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23161
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Slaves can be just as equal as free people
[Russell]
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23159
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Scarce goods may be denied entirely, to avoid their unequal distribution
[Russell]
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23164
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Modern justice is seen as equality, apart from modest extra rewards for exceptional desert
[Russell]
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23168
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A state is essential, to control greedy or predatory impulses
[Russell]
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23167
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Power should be with smaller bodies, as long as it doesn't restrict central powers
[Russell]
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23163
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In an anarchy universities, research, books, and even seaside holidays, would be impossible
[Russell]
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23166
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In democracy we are more aware of being governed than of our tiny share in government
[Russell]
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23165
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Socialists say economic justice needs some state control of industries, and of foreign trade
[Russell]
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