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.