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Ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'The Iliad or the Poem of Force' and 'The Spirit of the Laws (rev. 1757)'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

19956	True goodness is political, and consists of love of and submission to the laws [Montesquieu]
	Full Idea: The good man is he whose goodness is not Christian, but rather political, in the sense I have given. Such a man loves the laws of his land and is moved to act by them.
	From: Baron de Montesquieu (The Spirit of the Laws (rev. 1757) [1748], Intro)
	A reaction: I take this to have a lot in common with Aristotle, whose simple slogan for virtue I take to as 'be a good citizen'.