The French, there are SO many elements of culture I love about the French. I used to have some artists friends living in Paris. 7 arrondisement. The food, the culture. It’s amazing.
Now, as the French are the base of the EU, what will truly be the IDEA behind the EU.
Again we have to have a look at Rousseau. What he claims is actually VERY profound. He claims that you have freedom by chaining yourself to the law.
So what Rousseau is talking about is law.
How do you interpret this? Well the law has, ideally, a civilizing function on society. As Hammurabi say, the king that founded law in Babylon. Law is there to protect the weak. Because without law, it would be the will of the strong.
That is what Schopenhauer tries to figure out; the will. However Rousseaus point is, that law TAMES the will, to protect the weak.
By doing so, it sets the citizens free.
Now have a look at the law in Europe, is it in service of the weak, or is it morally corrupted, abusing its power?
As I have documented with my TV station TV Care, the system is corrupted, at least here in Denmark.
There is no respect for philosophers, and the state works, more or less, as a tyrant.
The EU have been trying to help me, and that is because the French actually RESPECTS philosophers. The French are civilized.
So, this is what Rousseau means in relation to the republic. Law should be a tool AGAINST tyranny and not FOR tyranny as it is here in Denmark.
If the EU then unfolds the idea of Rousseau and fights FOR democracy and human right ALL over the EU, it will serve the citizens, setting them free from the tyranny of the corrupted states.
G-d bless the will of the French, may they set us free from tyranny.