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How can we learn about differing views about what constitutes an effective…

- - - - form of the good allows to know the good itself;
        
        ultimate principle; what justice strives to attain (and other forms such as truth, equality, beauty, etc)
  - - - diff from hobbes and machiavelli; don't need mathematical knowledge + all of this education; you just need to understand enough to preserve society;
        
        diff measures of what success looks like
- - - - if something is inhibiting the sovereign power, then whatever is inhibiting the sovereign is the actual sovereign;
        
        natural law supposed to inhibit the sovereign, but it doesnt rlly matter what the king does;
        
        argues that the king has the right to kill his subjects without reason
        
        reason = has nothing to do with sovereign; not a special quality of a ruler; it is the quality that everyone has to allow them to understand how this system works;
        
        need prudence (reason + experience) to maintain their power;
        
        reason as NOT a special quality of the sovereign, something that everyone has access to;
        
        the big change from past texts!re
        
        religious transformation -> political knowledge transformation;
- - - - spinoza, piety as adhering to natural laws? encouraging people to love their neighbor? forcing ppl to love thier neighbor? diff from being a champion of the new testament;
        
        luther = earthly/temporal authority and religion as completely separate;