„By commonwealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is commonwealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in English does not“. (p. 167) #Locke #commonwealth #civitas
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Koselleck: Herrschaft ist unmoralisch
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„Rousseau geht einen Schritt weiter: nicht nur die Herrschaft ist unmoralisch, sondern sie zwingt auch die Gesellschaft dazu, den Menschen selbst, unmoralisch zu sein.“ (p. 142) #Koselleck #Rousseau #Herrschaft #Moral
Locke: Understanding
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„Since it is the Understanding that sets Man above the rest of sensible Beings, and gives him all the Advantage and Dominion, which he has over them; it is certainly a Subject, even for its Nobleness, worth our Labour to inquire into. The Understanding, like the Eye, whilst it makes us see, and perceive all other Things, takes no notice of it self: And it requires Art and Pains to set it at a distance, and make it its own Object.“ (Book I, Chap. 1, §1) #Locke #understanding
Locke: We are Born Free
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„Thus we are born free, as we are born rational“. (p. 80) #Locke #free #rational
Kant: Der allgemeine Imperativ der Pflicht
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„[S]o könnte der allgemeine Imperativ der Pflicht auch so lauten: handle so, als ob die Maxime deiner Handlung durch deinen Willen zum allgemeinen Naturgesetze werden sollte.“ (p. 52) #Kant #Imperativ #Pflicht