Combining Texts
Ideas for
'works', 'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)' and 'The Spirit of the Laws (rev. 1757)'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
21 ideas
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
20003
|
Slaves are not members of the society, so no law can forbid them to run away [Montesquieu]
|
20000
|
Slavery is entirely bad; the master abandons the virtues, and they are pointless in the slave [Montesquieu]
|
20006
|
The demand for slavery is just the masters' demand for luxury [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 3. Free speech
20009
|
Freedom of speech and writing, within the law, is essential to preserve liberty [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
19994
|
Freedom in society is ability to do what is right, and not having to do what is wrong [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
19981
|
No one even thinks of equality in monarchies and despotism; they all want superiority [Montesquieu]
|
19991
|
Equality is not command by everyone or no one, but command and obedience among equals [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 2. Political equality
19990
|
Democracy is corrupted by lack of equality, or by extreme equality (between rulers and ruled) [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
19983
|
Democracies may sometimes need to restrict equality [Montesquieu]
|
19982
|
Some equality can be achieved by social categories, combined with taxes and poor relief [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law
19959
|
Prior to positive laws there is natural equity, of obedience, gratitude, dependence and merit [Montesquieu]
|
19960
|
Sensation gives animals natural laws, but knowledge can make them break them [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
20002
|
The death penalty is permissible, because its victims enjoyed the protection of that law [Montesquieu]
|
20010
|
If religion teaches determinism, penalties must be severe; if free will, then that is different [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / d. Non-combatants
20001
|
The only right victors have over captives is the protection of the former [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
19973
|
The clergy are essential to a monarchy, but dangerous in a republic [Montesquieu]
|
19987
|
Religion has the most influence in despotic states, and reinforces veneration for the ruler [Montesquieu]
|
20011
|
Religion can support the state when the law fails to do so [Montesquieu]
|
20004
|
French slavery was accepted because it was the best method of religious conversion [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
19979
|
In monarchies education ennobles people, and in despotisms it debases them [Montesquieu]
|
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
19957
|
Teaching is the best practice of the general virtue that leads us to love everyone [Montesquieu]
|