Politics · 14 · Hoshayahu
Survive conquest, don't conquer
Fichte wanted Germans to rise up culturally and militarily. Rousseau wanted Poles to cultivate virtue and solidarity to survive conquest by superpowers.
The Bible is closer to Rousseau.
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The biblical scribes believed their communities needed knowledge, virtue, and vision to endure.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 233
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