One may approach the history
of political thought through a variety of themes that various philosophers
share but handle very differently. I wish here to capture a few trends in
political thought by analysis of the following two long lived themes, namely: naturalism
against moralism as well as determinism versus voluntarism.
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Oxford English Dictionary Quote: “According to Natural Law Ethical Theory, the Moral Standards That Govern Human Behavior Are, in Some Sense, Objectively Derived from the Nature of Human Beings.”
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Spinoza, B. (2014) The Ethics [Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata]. Translated from the Latin by R. H. M. Elwes. (Proposition 33) https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/spinoza/benedict/ethics/
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