Ep. 239: Montesquieu Invents Political Science (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

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🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On The Spirit of the Laws (1748) by Charles Louis de Secondat, aka Baron de Montesquieu.

What keeps a society functioning? Montesquieu, though of course not the first political philosopher, was perhaps the first to systematically explore correlations between characteristics of a government, its people, its climate, dominant industries, religion, and other factors. Some of his ideas directly influenced the American Constitution, and some of them are very very weird.

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0:22.9	Our question for episode 239 is something like
0:25.5	what is the relationship between law and culture?
0:27.9	We'll be discussing a month's views,
0:29.9	the spirit of the law is from 1748.
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0:35.3	This is Mark Linton-Meier, driven neither by virtue nor honor nor fear
0:38.8	in medicine Wisconsin.
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0:44.3	in the temperate climbs of Austin, Texas.
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