The Principles of Natural Law: In which the True Systems of Morality and Civil Government are Established; and the Different Sentiments of Grotius, Hobbes, Puffendorf, Barbeyrac, Locke, Clark, and Hutchinson, Occasionally ConsideredJ. Nourse, 1752 - 312 sivua |
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Sivu vii
... give proper encouragement to learning and the polite arts , we may conclude that those who in this refpect have raised themselves above the prejudices of cuf- tom , are endowed with the most emi- nent qualities . True it is , that preju ...
... give proper encouragement to learning and the polite arts , we may conclude that those who in this refpect have raised themselves above the prejudices of cuf- tom , are endowed with the most emi- nent qualities . True it is , that preju ...
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... the public . Dubious whether I fall ever be able to finish the larger work , I have endeavoured to give fuch an extent to thefe Principles , as may render them in fome measure nature . measure ferviceable to fuch as are defrous of.
... the public . Dubious whether I fall ever be able to finish the larger work , I have endeavoured to give fuch an extent to thefe Principles , as may render them in fome measure nature . measure ferviceable to fuch as are defrous of.
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... give rife to feveral adventitious ftates . 1 11. True idea of the natural state of man . 12. Difference between original and adven- titious ftates . ibid . 41 ibid . 42 ibid . 43 CHA P. V. That man ought to fquare his conduct by rule ...
... give rife to feveral adventitious ftates . 1 11. True idea of the natural state of man . 12. Difference between original and adven- titious ftates . ibid . 41 ibid . 42 ibid . 43 CHA P. V. That man ought to fquare his conduct by rule ...
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... gives us feveral rules of con- duct . 2. First rule . To make a right diftinction of goods and evils . 3. Second ... give the goods that ex- cel most , the preference . 6. Seventh rule . In fome cafes poffibility only , and by a much ...
... gives us feveral rules of con- duct . 2. First rule . To make a right diftinction of goods and evils . 3. Second ... give the goods that ex- cel most , the preference . 6. Seventh rule . In fome cafes poffibility only , and by a much ...
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... give a greater exactnefs and per- fpicuity to our ideas . Let us remember therefore , that these faculties are nothing else but the different powers of acting inherent in the foul , by means of which she performs all her operations ...
... give a greater exactnefs and per- fpicuity to our ideas . Let us remember therefore , that these faculties are nothing else but the different powers of acting inherent in the foul , by means of which she performs all her operations ...
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Sivu 287 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass in a few years ; he has all the endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Sivu 287 - But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries...
Sivu 196 - Hence the general principle of the law of nations is nothing more than the general law of sociability, which obliges all nations that have any intercourse with one another, to practise those duties to which individuals are naturally subject.
Sivu 287 - Point of Perfection that he can never pafs : In a few Years he has all the Endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thoufand more, would be the fame thing he is at prefent. Were a human...
Sivu 145 - ... point. Mons. Burlamaqui, whose work on the Principles of Natural and Political Law is well known, has said (pt. ii. ch. 3), " God has invested us with two means of perceiving or discerning moral good and evil ; the First is only a kind of Instinct, the Second is Reason or Judgment. Moral Instinct I call that natural bent or inclination which prompts us to approve of certain things as good and commendable, and to condemn others as bad and blamable, independent of reflection. Or, if any one has...
Sivu 287 - Are fuch abilities made for no purpofe ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pafs : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten...
Sivu 77 - A being, independent of any other, has no rule to pursue, but such as he prescribes to himself; but a state of dependence will inevitably oblige the inferior to take the will of him, on whom he depends, as the rule of his conduct : not indeed in every particular, but in all those points wherein his dependence consists.
Sivu 130 - ... reason to the next and immediate cause thereof, and from thence to the cause of that cause, and plunge himself profoundly in the pursuit of causes, shall at last come to this, that there must be, as even the heathen philosophers confessed, one first mover ; that is, a first and an eternal cause of all things, which is that which men mean by the name of God...
Sivu 195 - Hobbes very juftly, a is divided into the natural law of man, and the natural law of jlates ; and the latter is what we call the law of nations.