Political Science: Or, The State Theoretically and Practically Considered, Volumen1Scribner, Armstrong, 1877 - 626 páginas |
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... reason in regard to the moral quality of an action from its conformity or want of con- formity with the moral and social nature of man . The terms , then , will include both morality and jus , if not something more . Sir James ...
... reason in regard to the moral quality of an action from its conformity or want of con- formity with the moral and social nature of man . The terms , then , will include both morality and jus , if not something more . Sir James ...
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... reason of the case . Here we appeal to the convictions of men , who will admit that a certain amount of freedom in mature human beings is essential to nobility of character . Freedom is essential to virtue , courage , strength of ...
... reason of the case . Here we appeal to the convictions of men , who will admit that a certain amount of freedom in mature human beings is essential to nobility of character . Freedom is essential to virtue , courage , strength of ...
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... reason for accepting of it as necessary in the social and jural system . But it is more deeply implanted in our nature than any utility , than any . means to a desired end . It is as inevitable a rule for con- science and for abstaining ...
... reason for accepting of it as necessary in the social and jural system . But it is more deeply implanted in our nature than any utility , than any . means to a desired end . It is as inevitable a rule for con- science and for abstaining ...
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... reason , to have the power of free action and to be a law to himself within certain limits ; this does not remove his exercise of his rights in each particular case from the control of the law of duty ; that is still supreme and ...
... reason , to have the power of free action and to be a law to himself within certain limits ; this does not remove his exercise of his rights in each particular case from the control of the law of duty ; that is still supreme and ...
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... reason for the right must be the determining considera- tion . If in general rights are acknowledged that the individ- ual may unfold his nature according to its idea and fulfil the destination of his being , to abridge or destroy one's ...
... reason for the right must be the determining considera- tion . If in general rights are acknowledged that the individ- ual may unfold his nature according to its idea and fulfil the destination of his being , to abridge or destroy one's ...
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Página 249 - The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
Página 411 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Página 203 - If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent.
Página 254 - But with regard to the merely contingent or, as it may be called, constructive injury which a person causes to society, by conduct which neither violates any specific duty to the public, nor occasions perceptible hurt to any assignable individual except himself ; the inconvenience is one which society can afford to bear, for the sake of the greater good of human freedom.
Página 338 - ... for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Página 332 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Página 169 - Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth ; the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Página 412 - It follows, lastly, that since the king or magistrate holds his authority of the people, both originally and naturally for their good in the first place, and not his own, then may the people, as oft as they shall judge it for the best, either choose him or reject him, retain him or depose him, though no tyrant, merely by the liberty and right of freeborn men to be governed as seems to them best.
Página 332 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you, and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Página 255 - In the first place, it must by no means be supposed, because damage, or probability of damage, to the interests of others can alone justify the interference of society, that therefore it always does justify such interference. In many cases an individual, in pursuing a legitimate object, necessarily and therefore legitimately causes pain or loss to others, or intercepts a good which they had a reasonable hope of obtaining.