A fugitive thought on the idea of consent.
Surrender is not consent.
Well, I suppose that's really more relevant to Plato.
On the other hand, there's a lot of Plato in this essay.
Chapter II, Section 23 sounds like Rousseau and Hobbes, and most certainly not like Locke, Paine, or Nozick.
There is no mine and thine in a state of nature.
Property and whose is what are settled in civil society by the state acting for the General Will, says Benedictus.
Yes, la volonte generale.
Chapter III.
More that sounds a lot like Hobbes, including the egoism.
Section 10.
You can see how the Jews would throw him out.
Too much Hobbes by way of Plato, so to speak.
Too much deference concerning the "cultes exterieurs" based on too much importance attributed to a Platonic, mystic, or personal love of a God too detached from historic religion.
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