Introduction to Mimesis in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan
This chapter delineation below was not the format of the final dissertation. It was pre final revisions. This is the one I found published in the library, but its on…
Leo Strauss Natural Right and History
If there is no standard higher than the ideals of one’s society, there exists no possibility of taking a critical distance from those ideals. But the mere fact that we can raise the question of the worth of the ideals of our society shows that there is something in man that is not altogether enslaved to his society, and therefore that we are able, and even obliged, to look for a standard with reference to which we can judge of the ideals of our society, as well as of any other society. This standard cannot be found in the needs of the society concerned.
John Locke Second Treatise on Government
212 Besides this over-turning from without, governments are dissolved from within. p.107