Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the StateD. Appleton, 1892 - 431 páginas |
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... called for , because they could not be made without suspending more important work . Eventu- ally , it became manifest that the warning given did not pre- vent misinterpretations of my later beliefs ; and , therefore , ten years ago ...
... called for , because they could not be made without suspending more important work . Eventu- ally , it became manifest that the warning given did not pre- vent misinterpretations of my later beliefs ; and , therefore , ten years ago ...
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... called practical results , and would therefore teach astronomy , geology , anatomy , ethnology , & c . , together with logic and metaphysics . Unlike some of the Roman writers who held practice of the fine arts to be vicious , there are ...
... called practical results , and would therefore teach astronomy , geology , anatomy , ethnology , & c . , together with logic and metaphysics . Unlike some of the Roman writers who held practice of the fine arts to be vicious , there are ...
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... called amusements , are equally worthy to be included . In place of all which discordance we ought to have agreement . - Whether shall we adopt the theory of some that felicity means the greatest possible enjoyment of this life's ...
... called amusements , are equally worthy to be included . In place of all which discordance we ought to have agreement . - Whether shall we adopt the theory of some that felicity means the greatest possible enjoyment of this life's ...
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... called a desire ; and the more essential the action , the more powerful is the im- pulse to its performance , and ... called moral ? All must admit that we are guided to our bodily welfare by instincts ; that from instincts also , spring ...
... called a desire ; and the more essential the action , the more powerful is the im- pulse to its performance , and ... called moral ? All must admit that we are guided to our bodily welfare by instincts ; that from instincts also , spring ...
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... called a moral sense , may be best proved by evidence drawn from the lips of those who assert that we have it not . Bentham unwittingly derives his initial proposition from an oracle whose existence he denies . " One man , " he remarks ...
... called a moral sense , may be best proved by evidence drawn from the lips of those who assert that we have it not . Bentham unwittingly derives his initial proposition from an oracle whose existence he denies . " One man , " he remarks ...
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Página 165 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.
Página 55 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Página 378 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Página 96 - Act" (9th of George I.), which declares that any one disguised and in possession of an offensive weapon " appearing in any warren, or place where hares or conies have been, or shall be usually kept, and being thereof duly convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death, as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy.
Página 62 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Página 46 - A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection...
Página 62 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Página 379 - Therefore, before the names of just and unjust can have place, there must be some coercive power to compel men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant...
Página 379 - For where no covenant hath preceded, there hath no right been transferred, and every man has right to every thing; and consequently, no action can be unjust. But when a covenant is made, then to break it is unjust: and the definition of INJUSTICE is no other than the not performance of covenant. And whatsoever is not unjust, is just.
Página 190 - ... and means whatsoever, all and every such person or persons as shall, at any time hereafter, attempt or enterprise the destruction, invasion, detriment, or annoyance of the...