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I am not sure about this, but anyone think the French liberal thinker Benjamin Constant deserves a subforum? He was surely an influential figure in the history of social contract and liberal thought, in the strain of Locke/Rousseau/etc.
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Re: Benjamin Constant

Not sure. I've skimmed the wiki on him but haven't done and research. Anyone else?
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Re: Benjamin Constant

I have never heard of him before and I have studied a bit of social contract theory.
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Re: Benjamin Constant

Constant was the Thomas Paine of the French Revolution. M. deStael was his mistress in a typical French way for the time.
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