Philosophy of Democratic Government / by Yves R. Simon


A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z

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Gaul: 175
General interest (the): 50
Genius: 94-95, 214
Georgia: 13
Gerlich, F., 4 n.
Germany: 105
Gerson: 160
God:
      authority from, 158
      binding of conscience, 154, 176-177
      care for good of universe, 42
      efficient causality, 54-55
      first and universal cause, 169
      immediate source of power, 170-172, 174
      power, 155 n.
      working for, 231-232
Good and evil:
      good usages, 268, 269
      greatest, in the state, 52 n.
      ratio in human action, 80, 81
      reason and, 40 n.
      see also Evil
Goodness:
      authority in all-good society, 19
      autonomic; the particular good, 71
      degrees of, 80
      implications: a good person, 81
      truth in agreement with right desire, 22 n.
      unity, 35 n., 52
Goods: private, special, and particular, 56, 58
Government:
      believed to be evil, 68
      best form of, 107 n.
      best persons, 217
      bringing the governed to perfection, 131 n.
      civil, 62-63
      committee claims; consent, 192
      common good, 230
      consent of the governed, 190-193, 194
      daily life in American history, 128
      deficiency theory of, 4, 6
      demand for ethical perfection, 81-82
      democratic revolutions, 133
      direct, nonrepresentative, 151
      distinct kinds; power of the multitude, 167
      distinct personnel vs multitude, 38
      division: political and despotic, 73 n.
      dominion over free men, 234
      elimination of, 247
      entrusting the multitude, 79
      established by divine right, 166
      experts, 307
      functionaries, 58
      general theory of, 1-71
      hereditary, 84
      ideal; coercion unnecessary in, 115
      ideally successful, 15
      instruments of, 108-127
      legitimate; transmission theory, 178
      majority support, 99
      man in state of innocence, 59 n., 74 n.
      minimizing, 128
      mob as leaders, 316
      most essential function of, 71
      multitude by itself, 38
      necessary evil, 128
      necessity of, 168
      needed even in ideal society, 154
      overgovernment, 128
      paternalistic, 303
      pie (analogy), 100
      power of resistance, 178
      powers divided and balanced, 137 n.
      price-fixing, 236
      principles of Thomas Aquinas, 40 n.
      private / public persons in, 44
      problem of evil, 63
      produced by our wickedness, 61-63
      proper cause and incidental cause, 36 n.
      purposes, 68-69
      recognition, 210
      servant of the people, 146
      society's need for, 38
      transmission and essence of, 187
      tyranny, 70
      universal republic under God, 318
      unnecessary in society of perfect
      people, 69-70
      work of wisdom, 78
      see also Direct democracy; Power
Grammar: 267
Great Britain: 104, 178, 186
Greatest good of greatest number: 5, 50, 122
Greece: 67, 273
Group: 222, 230
Guilt: 29
Gurian, Waldemar: I n., 2 n.
Gurvitch, Georges: 84 n., 248 n.


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