The Moral and Political Philosophy of John LockeColumbia University Press, 1918 - 168 pages |
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... law . But God acted as he did , not arbitrarily , but from the necessity imposed on him by reason . Therefore , the ultimate source of moral distinctions is that reason which God himself is not free to disobey . And though in the ...
... law . But God acted as he did , not arbitrarily , but from the necessity imposed on him by reason . Therefore , the ultimate source of moral distinctions is that reason which God himself is not free to disobey . And though in the ...
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... reason is universal and alike in all individuals , and apprehends the same law . Though on other subjects the greatest disagreement is found , yet in their views of the moral law , men show a fundamental unanimity . " Every one being ...
... reason is universal and alike in all individuals , and apprehends the same law . Though on other subjects the greatest disagreement is found , yet in their views of the moral law , men show a fundamental unanimity . " Every one being ...
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... reason , not as a law of the nature of things in general , but as a human faculty . " The law of nature is the product of human nature . " 24 Since man alone has reason , he alone is that about which the law of nature is concerned . His ...
... reason , not as a law of the nature of things in general , but as a human faculty . " The law of nature is the product of human nature . " 24 Since man alone has reason , he alone is that about which the law of nature is concerned . His ...
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... reason discover the law of nature ? What are the data with which reason must operate to reach its conclusions ? Just what is reason anyhow ? To these questions the advocates of the principle of natural law gave no definite answer ...
... reason discover the law of nature ? What are the data with which reason must operate to reach its conclusions ? Just what is reason anyhow ? To these questions the advocates of the principle of natural law gave no definite answer ...
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... reason can develop the law of nature . Thus they added a rather crude theory of innate ideas to the accepted ration- alistic position . " There are stamped and printed upon the being of man some clear and indelible principles , some ...
... reason can develop the law of nature . Thus they added a rather crude theory of innate ideas to the accepted ration- alistic position . " There are stamped and printed upon the being of man some clear and indelible principles , some ...
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Page 34 - ... there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time ; no arts; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish,...
Page 34 - In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society...
Page 122 - Men living together according to reason without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of Nature.
Page 54 - IDEA, which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the OBJECT of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by PHANTASM, NOTION, SPECIES, or WHATEVER IT IS WHICH THE MIND CAN BE EMPLOYED ABOUT IN THINKING; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Page 30 - ... from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth.
Page 112 - If this were wholly separated from all our outward sensations and inward thoughts, we should have no reason to prefer one thought or action to another; negligence to attention; or motion to rest. And so we should neither stir our bodies nor employ our minds, but let our thoughts (if I may so call it) run a-drift, without any direction or design; and suffer the ideas of our minds, like unregarded shadows, to make their appearances there, as it happened, without attending to them.
Page 77 - Where there is no property there is no injustice" is a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid.
Page 83 - 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...
Page 83 - WHETHER we consider natural reason, which tells us that men, being once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat and drink and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence...
Page 89 - ... is so much ease from all pain, and so much present pleasure, as without which any one cannot be content. Now because pleasure and pain are produced in us by the operation of certain objects, either on our minds or our bodies, and in different degrees, therefore what has an aptness to produce pleasure in us is that we call good...