Rights in Civil Society - Part Two
The Science Of Right In Civil Society
Distinguished From Political Science
Chapter 1
The proximate and remote ends of societies
1733. We have discussed elsewhere the proximate and remote end of civil society,(50) and shown that the proximate end must be regulated by the remote. Related to the latter, the former stands as means to end. The office of wholesome, complete political science is to lead civil society to attain its proximate end without prejudice to the remote end, which the proximate must help and serve.
We also said that the art of leading civil society to its proximate end is politics in the strict sense; the art of subordinating the proximate to the remote end pertains to political philosophy. This is the moral and more excellent part of politics.
Notes
(50) SP, bk. 2.