“A Living Law to Himself and Others”: Daniel Defoe, Algernon Sidney, and the Politics of Self-Interest in <i>Robinson Crusoe</i> and <i>Farther Adventures</i>
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Abstract
This article provides a context for the dramatic shift in the political constitution of Crusoe's island that occurs between Robinson Crusoe and Farther Adventures. Scrutinizing Daniel Defoe's changing views on self-interest from the publication of Jure Divino: A Satyr (1706) to the publication of the Crusoe narratives (1719) provides insight into why a monarchical Crusoe appears confident enough to place the political authority of his island in the hands of the previously recalcitrant mutineers. Defoe's insistence that the ability of the inhabitants to consent to a particular form of government is predicated upon their capacity to provide themselves with appropriate rules of social and political conduct underwrites the central paradox of Crusoe's island republic: how might a self-governing commonwealth be reconciled with the need to defer authority to an external ruler? What additional forms of civic practice might be required for the security of a European colony so far removed from the seat of British monarchical authority?
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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