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    Social order requires a single governor whose authority e... — Carmelics
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    Social order requires a single governor whose authority embraces that of all particular governors and directs their efforts to a single end.

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.Social order is a necessary condition for human happiness.
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    • 2.Achieving a single end from multiple governors requires a unified authority over all particular governors.
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    • 1.Montesquieu's separation of powers demonstrates that coordinated governance emerges from institutional competition, not unified authority.
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    • 2.Historical federal systems (Swiss Confederation, Dutch Republic) achieved stable social order through distributed sovereignty without a supreme governor.
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    • 1.A single authority embracing all particular governors concentrates error and corruption without corrective mechanisms, making disorder more likely.
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    • 2.Hayek's epistemic argument establishes that no single governor possesses sufficient local knowledge to direct diverse communities toward a unified end effectively.
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    Whatever the precise nature of the dilemma to which Dante alludes, the fourth treatise is marked by a noticeable shift away from metaphysics in the direction of ethics and rhetoric. Philosophical knowledge is redirected to the purposes of social and political life, and the treatise, while punctuated like the others by numerous digressions, pursues a single sustained argument. Dante begins by explaining that social order is a necessary condition for human happiness and that it requires a single g
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