Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedD. Appleton, 1890 - 523 páginas |
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... transposed .nto - whatever is right is expedient . " " Let your rule be , the greatest happiness to the great- est number , " interposes another authority . " That , like the other , is no rule INTRODUCTION, · The Doctrine of Expediency,
... transposed .nto - whatever is right is expedient . " " Let your rule be , the greatest happiness to the great- est number , " interposes another authority . " That , like the other , is no rule INTRODUCTION, · The Doctrine of Expediency,
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... authorities could " see a reasonable prospect of the parties being able to provide for their children , " it was doubtless intended to advance the public weal by checking improvident unions , and redundant population ; a purpose most ...
... authorities could " see a reasonable prospect of the parties being able to provide for their children , " it was doubtless intended to advance the public weal by checking improvident unions , and redundant population ; a purpose most ...
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... authority whose decision respecting it shall be final - that is , a legislature . And without that authority , such a morality must ever remain inoperative . See here , then , the predicament . A system of moral philosophy professes to ...
... authority whose decision respecting it shall be final - that is , a legislature . And without that authority , such a morality must ever remain inoperative . See here , then , the predicament . A system of moral philosophy professes to ...
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... authority for his own maxim than this same moral sense , is somewhat unfortunate for him . Yet , on putting that maxim into critical hands , we shall soon dis- cover such to be the fact . Let us do this . " And so you think , " says the ...
... authority for his own maxim than this same moral sense , is somewhat unfortunate for him . Yet , on putting that maxim into critical hands , we shall soon dis- cover such to be the fact . Let us do this . " And so you think , " says the ...
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... a right to happiness as I have ? " " Who told me ? -- I am sure of it ; I know it ; I feel it ; I- " " Nay , nay , that will not do . Give me your authority . WORKINGS OF THE MORAL SENTIMENTS . 35 Tell me who 34 INTRODUCTION .
... a right to happiness as I have ? " " Who told me ? -- I am sure of it ; I know it ; I feel it ; I- " " Nay , nay , that will not do . Give me your authority . WORKINGS OF THE MORAL SENTIMENTS . 35 Tell me who 34 INTRODUCTION .
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Página 190 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Página 107 - 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 143 - 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, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Página 240 - State, and each and every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State, shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
Página 143 - 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 73 - Thus the ultimate development of the ideal man is logically certain .... as certain as any conclusion in which we place the most implicit faith — for instance, that all men will die.
Página 391 - ... and conquer, by all fitting ways, enterprises and means whatsoever, all and every such person or persons as shall at any time hereafter...
Página 125 - Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man...
Página 413 - If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
Página 396 - ... our trade with all parts of the world, for imposing taxes on us without our consent, for depriving us of the...