Reciprocity in France [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… vol. 2, p. 267. Although Lavie did not reject all forms of inequality – to the contrary, he remarked in passing on nature’s uneven distribution of ‘talents and strengths’ – he did not theorise about these differences. He foregrounded … François de Paule Combalusier called for teaching children ‘that all men are brothers, that they are equal by their nature, that they are essentially tied by the reciprocity of goods and services, and that the greatest among them is the … de la jeunesse et de la perfectionner (n.p., 1762), p. 6. Similar ideas appeared in the influential L’Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques , by Pierre-Paul Le Mercier de la Rivière. This advocate of Physiocracy (an …
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