Philosophy of Democratic Government / by Yves R. Simon


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Cabinet: government functionaries, 58
Caesar: 156, 175
Cajetan (Thomas de Vio): 23 n., 35 n., 160-166, 175, 179, 182
Calculus: 272
Campaigns: moderate; intensive, 188-189, 190
Candidates: freedom of expression, 122
Canon law: 75 n.
Capital punishment: 51, 202
Capitalization: 245-246, 249
Car(s): 268-269
Catastrophes in public life, 78
Catherine the Great, 73
Cause / Causality:
      determinate, 34
      diversity of effects, 62 n.
      free cause as superdeterminate, 34
      freedom and, 230
      inadequate notion of, 35
      subordination of, 54
Censorship: 120-121
Centralization: 130-131, 285
Certainty: 20, 21, 23, 219, 220
Chance: 5, 227
Chang, S.H.M., 4 n.
Character training: 217
Charity: 216
Charles V, King: 317
Children: authority and, 7-9
Choice:
      freedom of, 31-35
      virtue and, 22 n.
Christianity: theory of divine right, 155
Christians: 216
Church:
      freedom; restraint on the state, 137
      pattern of organization, 75, 156
      Peter, the head of, 155
      power, in relation to Pope, 162, 165
Churchill, Winston: 104, 179, 215
Citizen(s):
      common good, 42-44
      freedom, 74
      law-abiding, 153
      morality, 82
      obedience to self, 147
      political ability / virtue, 96, 214
      responsibility (Aquinas), 62 n.
      rights, 122-123
City life:
      aversion to, 295
      city dwellers, 276
      duties re common good, 11
      family morals, 319
      law enforcement, 114
      loneliness; communications, 309
      solitude, 308
      work in town, live in country, 319-320
Civil society (the term): 67
Civil War (U.S.): 289
Civilization, Technological:
      mechanical, 273
      nature and, 114
      social fluidity, 313-314
      uniformity, 311-312
Class struggle: 1, 253, 255, 258
      see also Social classes; Upper class
Classics: 283
Clichés: 296
Closed-shop: 120
Co-operatives: 137, 252
Coach-driver theory: 146-154, 185
Cochin, Augustin: 148 n.
Coercion:
      authority and, 108
      democracy and, 115, 118-119
      ethical usage, 135
      ethically evil, 116
      hypothesis: a people free from evil, 110 n.
      lawful; worthy results, 117
      persuasion and, 69, 194
      physical / psychical forms, 125-127
      power of society, 304
      rise of, 125
      state, 119
      state; distinguishing aspects, 109-110
      unconditional, 68, 109-110, 248
      utopia, 116
      violence and, 112-1 15
Collective bargaining: 305
Collective management: 130
Collective ownership: 129
Colonial rule: 12-13, 17, 140, 193
Commerce: 237, 238, 239
Common good:
      authority and, 303
      authority necessary to intention of, 59
      Bellarmine on, 168
      cities, 11
      civil association, 62
      civil government and, 70
      common action for, 28-29
      common life of desire and action, 49
      concern of every genuine virtue, 42
      defense of particular goods, 41
      direct management by the whole, 130
      direction of society, 48, 56-57
      driving on same side of road, 30
      duty of united action, 26
      enlightened good will of perfect
      citizens, 129
      essential for a society to exist, 48
      excessive income, 250
      failure to fulfill, 43
      formally / materially intended, 48, 50-51, 56, 58
      freedom and authority, 74
      freedom and unanimity, 140-141
      God's care for the universe, 42
      government for, 230
      grounds for love and devotion, 54
      intention of, 36, 43, 51-52, 56, 58, 70
      love of, 51
      loved by virtuous people, 39
      material / formal concern for, 47
      means uniquely determined, 101
      multiple means of procuring, 30,33
      multitude; particular goods, 55
      obedience, 57, 62 n.
      order of ends, 35 n.
      ordering anything to, 158
      particular good referred to by will, 37 n., 40 n.
      particular persons and particular
      goods, 70-71
      particularization of interests, 129
      private interests surrendered for, 39
      proposition of practical truth, 27
      prudential judgment; agreement, 26 n.
      public persons in charge of, 38
      public reason and public will, 48, 56-57
      right of deposition, 180
      sacrifice; virtue and love, 48
      social life and governance, 59 n.
      societies relative to, 64
      spontaneously intended by all, 37
      state defined by, 134-135
      teachers and, 45-47
      understanding and good will lacking, 37
      uniquely determined means, 29
      united action; unanimity or authority, 25 n., 28, 30, 33
      virtue of the private person, 48, 51
      virtues; laws, 82 n.
      virtuous rulers, 216
      volition of, 36-71
      war and, 42-43
      war; support, 26
      see also Individualism
Common man: 215, 216, 217, 218, 221, 222, 257, 318
Communication(s):
      communion-causing, 66-67
      farm and city, 319-320
      interindividual processes, 65-66
      loneliness; urban concentration, 309, 311
      of propositions, 20-21
      rational; unanimity, 27
Communions in immanent actions, 65
Communism: 1, 2, 57
      Plato and Aristotle, 52
Community:
      civil societies, 67
      communications in, 66
      commumon in immanent actions, 65
      commumon in rule, 222
      conditioned by knowledge and desire, 64
      government and obedience necessary in, 154
      initiative in, 130
      loss of life for, 206
      partnerships, 48-50, 62-67
      power to make laws, 176
      power, 165, 171-172, 173
      principles, 124
      royal power; consent, 174-175
      rural life, 261-262
      society relative to common good, 64
      unanimity and, 29
      versus individualistic loneliness, 307-322
      work for, 231
Compromise: 102
Comte, Augnste: 84 n.
Conformity: formal, 41 n.
Confusion: 46
Congress(men): 185, 188, 190
Connaturality: 219-220, 222
Conquered peoples: 175, 193
Conscience: 50, 318
      binding that of another, 145, 146, 154, 176-177
      equality of values, 235
      society as protector of, 112
Consent: 117-118, 153-154,174-176, 178-179, 190-194
Conservative Party: 104
Conservatives: 1, 5 n., 13-18, 90, 96, 140, 196, 207, 217, 285
Conservatives: low idea of human kind, 5 n.
Conspicuous consumption: 244
Constitution: 185, 186, 211, 212 n.
Consumers: 232, 311
Contingency: 20
Contracts: 48-50, 65, 139, 175, 254, 255, 305
Control:
      democratic right of, 180
      transmission theory, 181
Corruption:
      masked anarchy, 185
      universal suffrage, 78
      wealth and, 92
Councils, and the Pope: 160
Courier, Paul-Louis: 147
Creation: power of God, 170
Crime: 41, 51, 126, 202, 217, 317
      atrocities, 93
      criminals in positions of power, 82-84
      defense against; society's concern, 82-84
      fear of punishment, 112
      lawful protection against, 113
      legal definition, 209
      making it impossible, 90
      socialist Russia, 257
      totalitarian state, 134
      wartime, 235
Cruelty: 91
Culture:
      familiarity with nature, 294
      inhumanity and, 91
      intellectual qualities, 297
      leisure and, 298
      refinement, 211
      technical, 299
      wealth and poverty in, 92
Custom: force of law, 158-159, 176


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