 | Joy Connolly - 2009 - 321 sivua
...thereby drawn to one common center of mutual good offices. . . . Society cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another" (The Theory of Moral Sentiments 2.ii.3). Hobbes's rejection of this theory is the basic strategy of Leviathan,... | |
 | Thomas Sowell - 2007 - 345 sivua
...inculcation of justice serves to "overawe" the individual. Because society "cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another," 8 justice is— instrumentally— society's prime virtue. The instrumental nature of justice, and its... | |
 | Ian W. Archer - 2007 - 238 sivua
...however, on a diet of total distrust. As Adam Smith once said, 'Society . . . cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another ... If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least . . . abstain from robbing... | |
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Society, however, cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another. 
