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S8 Ep619: 1. Guest author Gregory Copley defines nobility as a quality of honor and purity essential for a "noble state". He argues that while republics have reached a "sclerotic" peak, becoming consumed by partisan politics, traditional monarchies are reinventing

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🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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1. Guest author Gregory Copley defines nobility as a quality of honor and purity essential for a "noble state". He argues that while republics have reached a "sclerotic" peak, becoming consumed by partisan politics, traditional monarchies are reinventing themselves. A monarch serves as a symbolic repository for a nation's heritage, remaining above the political fray. Copley highlights King Charles III as a modern leader reinvigorating this dynamic, apolitical role to unify diverse societies. This provides a sense of historical continuity and purpose that current republican systems struggle to maintain. (1)
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This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:43.2

Here's John Batchelor.

0:44.9

It's a great pleasure to welcome my colleague and friend and mentor, Gregory Copley,

0:50.3

for his new book, The Noble State Governance Options in an Innoble Era.

0:56.5

We begin with the word noble, as in nobility.

1:00.8

That is critical to understand because we have not left it behind in the Enlightenment period.

1:06.7

We are not headed to a period where the word noble is going to take on some other version of itself.

1:13.4

It is now what it was 100,000, 2,000 years ago.

1:18.6

It is a quality, and it attaches to people of all kinds.

1:24.4

However, we need to define it very carefully here because we're talking about politics

1:30.0

in the 21st century. Gregory, congratulations. A very good evening. Nobility, a definition that can

1:36.4

help us through this conversation. Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, nobility is the

1:42.4

characteristic which is in, as you say, all people at all

1:47.0

stages if they choose to embrace it. And that is to have a degree of, if you like, purity of

1:56.3

intention, honorable behavior, honorable treatment of others, and to represent the values of their society.

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