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Ideas for Herodotus, P. Johnson-Laird and Simone Weil
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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / b. The natural life
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The most important human need is to have multiple roots [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people
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The need for order stands above all others, and is understood via the other needs [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights
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Obligations only bind individuals, not collectives [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 4. Citizenship
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A citizen should be able to understand the whole of society [Weil]
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We all need to partipate in public tasks, and take some initiative [Weil]
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Even the poorest should feel collective ownership, and participation in grand display [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture
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Culture is an instrument for creating an ongoing succession of teachers [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 1. Social Power
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People in power always try to increase their power [Weil]
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In oppressive societies the scope of actual control is extended by a religion of power [Weil]
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Force is what turns man into a thing, and ultimately into a corpse [Weil]
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The essence of power is illusory prestige [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / b. Monarchy
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A lifelong head of society should only be a symbol, not a ruler [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / a. Centralisation
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No central authority can initiate decentralisation [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / c. Revolution
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Spontaneous movements are powerless against organised repression [Weil]
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After a bloody revolution the group which already had the power comes to the fore [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 1. Ideology
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A group is only dangerous if it endorses an abstract entity [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 2. Anarchism
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Our only social duty is to try to limit evil [Weil]
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Decentralisation is only possible by co-operation between strong and weak - which is absurd [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 3. Conservatism
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National leaders want to preserve necessary order - but always the existing order [Weil]
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We need both equality (to attend to human needs) and hierarchy (as a scale of responsibilities) [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / f. Against democracy
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Party politics in a democracy can't avoid an anti-democratic party [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics
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True democracy is the subordination of society to the individual [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism
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Only individual people of good will can achieve social progress [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / d. Liberal freedom
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In the least evil societies people can think, control community life, and be autonomous [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 8. Socialism
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Socialism tends to make a proletariat of the whole population [Weil]
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It is not more money which the wretched members of society need [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism
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The collective is the one and only object of false idolatry [Weil]
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The problem of the collective is not suppression of persons, but persons erasing themselves [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 11. Capitalism
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Marx showed that capitalist oppression, because of competition, is unstoppable [Weil]
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Once money is the main aim, society needs everyone to think wealth is possible [Weil]
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The capitalists neglect the people and the nation, and even their own interests [Weil]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 14. Nationalism
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National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil]
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Charity is the only love, and you can feel that for a country (a place with traditions), but not a nation [Weil]
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