A History of Political Theories From Luther to Montesquieu
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History in its largest aspect shows that mankind develops in a recurring cycle of three stages the divine, the heroic and the human, and political organization cor- responds to these. The sequence of governments, then, is not a movement to be deprecated and to be combated by political science, but is an inevitable consequence of the divine plan embodied in the creation. Though Vico's triopsis is at some points rather forced and unreal, yet he presents on the whole a very remarkable interpretati...on of institutions social and political, in connection with the various phases of human government. His method of thought furnishes a striking contrast to that of the natural- law philosophers, who dominate the thinking of the time. With them the ideal is a body of law, rights and authority which, corresponding to a perfect and unchanging human reason, must be good for all times and places ; with Vico there is no perfect and unchanging reason save that of God, and in all human affairs law, rights and authority must inevitably vary according to the stages of general VICO AND MONTESQUIEU 389 enlightenment.
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