„Hier muß man sich ins Gedächtnis rufen, daß die Grundlage des Gesellschaftsvertrages das Eigentum ist, und seine erste Bedingung, daß jeder im Genuß dessen gesichert ist, was ihm gehört.“ (p. 47) #Rousseau #Gesellschaftsvertrag #Eigentum
„[I]m Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts bereitet sich als äußerste Konsequenz und endgültiger Verrat am revolutionären Gedankengut das Aufkommen des Willens vor, der den Willen will, der Wille zur Macht, der dunkle Wille, der sich weigert, mit der Klarheit der Vernunft gemeinsame Sache zu machen, und der auf so oberflächliche Weise für ‚oberflächlich‘ gehalten wurde.“ (p. 58) #Starobinski #Wille #Vernunft
„God can think an infinitude of things in infinite ways, or (which is the same thing) can form an idea of His essence and of all the things which necessarily follow from it. But everything which is in the power of God is necessary. Therefore in God there necessarily exists the idea of His essence, and of all things which necessarily follow from His essence.“ (Second Part, Chap. IX, The Mind of God) #Spinoza #PowerOfGod
„Seien wir uns einig, daß aus Gewalt kein Recht kommt, und daß man nur unter Zwang den gesetzten Gewalten gehorcht.“ (p. 65) #Rousseau #Gewalt
„Hence it is evident, that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil-government at all: for the end of civil society, being to avoid, and remedy those inconveniencies of the state of nature, which necessarily follow from every man’s being judge in his own case, by setting up a known authority, to which every one of that society may appeal upon any injury received, or controversy that may arise, and which every one of the society ought to obey; where-ever any persons are, who have not such an authority to appeal to, for the decision of any difference between them, there those persons are still in the state of nature; and so is every absolute prince, in respect of those who are under his dominion.“ (Sect. 90) #Locke #AbsoluteMonarchy