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Ideas for 'works', 'Sapiens: brief history of humankind' and 'The Social Contract (tr Cress)'

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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war
7236 War gives no right to inflict more destruction than is necessary for victory [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / c. Combatants
23607 Wars are between States, not people, and the individuals are enemies by accident [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / e. Peace
20691 Real peace is the implausibility of war (and not just its absence) [Harari]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
19850 By separating theological and political systems, Jesus caused divisions in the state [Rousseau]
19851 Every society has a religion as its base [Rousseau]
19852 Civil religion needs one supreme god, an afterlife, justice, and the sanctity of the social contract [Rousseau]
19853 All religions should be tolerated, if they tolerate each other, and support citizenship [Rousseau]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 4. Taxation
19836 The amount of taxation doesn't matter, if it quickly circulates back to the citizens [Rousseau]
20684 Financing is increasingly through credit rather than taxes; people prefer investing to taxation [Harari]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
11150 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
3037 Aristotle said the educated were superior to the uneducated as the living are to the dead [Aristotle, by Diog. Laertius]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
20675 The more you know about history, the harder it becomes to explain [Harari]
20676 History teaches us that the present was not inevitable, and shows us the possibilities [Harari]