What holds our polities together? Is it kindness? expediency? or a coming together of like-minded souls to live in harmony? These are the questions that not only bothered enlightenment philosophers but philosophers going back to Plato’s Republic. How we answer the question not only defines what kind of constitutional order we envisage but more broadly h…
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