currently listening to this while finishing up the hay loft, and so far i am very thoroughly enjoying this analysis though i generally do not enjoy the philosophy of statehood as a field. currently he's discussing the notion of restitution for damages and the argument that equal restitution can result in undue gain for the violator, and i must say this is something currently applicable in the federal jurisprudence in the united states towards large conglomerates. it reminds me of how in ancient law codes there is usually a severe multiplication of restitution as the result of damages (in the mosaic law, for instance, four times the damage inflicted by the violator for general theft) and it again makes me wonder if the ancients were yet again wiser in their political theory prior to the advent of philosophy proper as we know it now...