Sacrifice: love of common good, 48
Saint-Simonists: 196, 224, 225 n., 226, 261, 288, 289, 292
Saints: as rulers, 216
Salary: 242
Sandoz, Albert: 236 n.
Saul: 164
Scholarships: 229
Science: 209, 214, 218, 272, 278
culture and, 297
scientific man: 285
scientific method: 273
unanimity lacking in, 20
Secession: 13
Secrecy: protection by, 281
Security: 242, 276, 291
Self: seeking, away from God, 231
Self-government: 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 60 n.
autonomy, 302
farm work, 301
labor process, 299, 301
rural life, 261
training in, 305
Self-sacrifice: 231
Sense appetite: 270-271, 285, 286-287
Serfdom: 231, 234, 254, 305
Service: sense of, 310-311
Servitude: 70, 141, 248, 262, 308
freedom and, 233
man in state of innocence, 59 n.
the word, 231
Simplicity: 131
Sin: inclination to virtue diminished by, 80 n.
Slavery: 131, 234, 254, 255, 260
Aristotle on family, 315
basis of society in antiquity, 288 n.
elements of, 231, 232
emancipation by machine, 290
mastership and, 59 n.
for private good of others, 74
wars and, 288-289
Sociability: 308
Social:
acts, 88
classes, 1, 2, 253-257
condition, 4 n.
engineer, 291
history, 233
sciences, 31, 191, 282
structure, 208, 223
unity, see Unity
values, 130, 203, 235, 241, 322
Socialism: 196, 224, 231, 246-247, 252, 256
Society:
animal societies, 63 n.
authority an essential function in, 33
civil and ecclesiastical, 165
civil; definition, 63
classless, 3
coercive power, 304
common good and particular goods, 48, 51
defining feature of civil society, 67-68
deification of, 84, 85
dissolution of, 4 n.
distinction needed in, 55
distinguishing features of, 63-64
equal protection for all, 205
erecting into deity, 84
evil's main dwelling place, 90
fulfillment of duties toward, 308
good / perfection of, 34
good use of techniques, 284
ground for constitution of, 50
groups: the governing and the
governed, 37
ideally perfect people, 37, 67, 101
immaturity, 70
individual roles in, 54
judge stands for, 41
mere partnership, 63, 64, 65
morality and, 191
natural fur man to live in, 62 n., 191
needs associated with, 242-244
none, without a common good, 48
obedience in, 146
orders of, 256
particular goods in, 55
power of resistance to state, 134
power re questions voted on, 85-86
power to protect itself, 166
priority and subordination in, 47
produced by our wants, 61-63
progress: growth of liberty, 139-140
protector of conscience, 112
reign of reason in, 138
social causality on election day, 88
social divisions in, 13
societies relative to common good, 64
state as threat to, 135
technological, 273
truth and, 85
union tending to a common end, 33 n.
upbringing of youth entrusted to, 225
utopian, 19
wisdom of, 242
see also Citizen; Common good; Community; Family; Government
Socrates: 53 n.
Soldiers: 42-44
Solidarity: 255
Solitude:
Christian sociability, 266
city life, 308
romantic seeker of, 266-267
threat to, 311
Solomon, 62 n.
Sophistry: 294
Soul:
Aquinas on body and soul, 200 n.
despotic ruler of body, 72 n.
individual creation of, 170
Southern states: 260
Sovereignty: 129, 144, 161, 162, 166-167, 175, 176-194
democratic condition of, 181
nondemocratic regimes, 18 1-182
partial nontransmission of, 184
of the people, 62 n., 147, 148, 149, 151, 176, 177
transmission theory, 178, 181, 184, 189, 193
ungenuinely transmitted, 187, 188
Space utility: 238
Stalin, Joseph, V., 2 n.
State:
basic duty of, 247
coercion, 68-69
communism, 2
concern of all citizens, 87
defined by the common good pursued, 134-135
democratic transformation of, 127-143
despotic, 74
duties re common good. 11
evil makes state necessary, 4-5
Fascist, 2
greatest good / evil in (Plato), 52
hypothesis: a people free from evil, 110 n.
imperialism, 132, 135, 247
intervention by, 6
management by, 252
necessity, 69
a plurality, 53 n.
Proudhon on, 134
purely contractual society, 50
purification by democratic control, 132
reluctance to tolerate autonomy, 131
right use of coercion, 109-110
rights of citizens and, 130 n.
society's power of resistance to, 134
supersession of, 133
threat to society, 135
training of children, 69
transmission theory, 178
unnecessary, 3
Strikes: 113, 115, 139
Suarez, Francisco: 161, 169-178
Subjection of woman, 61 n.
Success: virtue and, 68
Suffering: 258, 272, 317
Suffrage:
decisive argument for, 98
deliberation re: questions submitted to vote, 86
election of wrong candidate; evil, 81
equalitarian rule, 96
frequency of bad choice, 81
functions, 86
optimism: sociological form, 84
power of numbers, 96-98
restricted franchise, 118 n.
universal, 77-99
vindication (statistical, sociological, romantic), 79
Surgery: 283
Surplus: 249, 251