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This is the Partial Examined Life episode at 239 Part 2.

We've been talking about month of use, the spirit of the laws.

So we've got the types of government out there.

We've got liberty out there.

I feel like we should talk more about republics.

And what is specific to those, we had said earlier that the emotive force behind a monarchy is honor.

Right? That's what keeps the noble class that needs to be there to balance against the monarch in line.

Keeps them striving such that their self-interest is the same as the self-interest of the state.

So for republics, that's supposed to be virtue, though.

I'm going to say more about what that means.

Book three chapters two and three year.

I mean, I think he thinks that if you're making your own laws, if the people are entrusted to make the laws,

then a certain amount of virtue is required within a society.

So virtues defined specifically as love of country.

That is the virtue in question.

In fact, amounts to self-abnegation.

What I distinguish by the name of virtue in republic is the loved ones country that is the love of equality.

Anyway, it's toward the end of the preface.

Honor is to be found in republic, though.

It's being political virtue and political virtue is found in market.

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