Montesquieu Book 1 Chapter 1 Montesquieu talks about Natural Laws and Postitive
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Montesquieu Book 1 Chapter 1 Montesquieu talks about Natural Laws and Postitive Laws. Please help analysis/interpret
By the allurement of pleasure they preserve the individual and by the same allurement they preserve their species. They have NATURAL LAWS, because they are united by sensation; POSTITIVE LAWS they have none, because they are not connected by knowledge: yet they do not invariably conform to their NATURAL LAWS: these are better observed by vegetables, that have neither understanding nor sense. examples of a Positive Law and Natural Laws
Explanation / Answer
part 1) By the allurement of pleasure they preserve the individual and by the same allurement they preserve their species
meaning : By the power to attract with something desirable they preserve the individual and by the same power to attract with something desirable they preserve their species.
part 2)
They have NATURAL LAWS, because they are united by sensation; POSTITIVE LAWS they have none, because they are not connected by knowledge: yet they do not invariably conform to their NATURAL LAWS: these are better observed by vegetables, that have neither understanding nor sense. examples of a Positive Law and Natural Laws
meaning : they have natural laws just because they are joined together by an exited feeling or sensation.Positive laws does not have none of these because they are not joined together by knowledge.Yet they do not agree eveytime to their natural laws.these are better observed by vegetables, that have neither understanding nor sense.
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