Readings in Political PhilosophySelections from Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Marsiglio, Machiavelli, Calvin, the Vindiciae contra tyrannos, Bodin, Hooker, Grotius, Milton, Hobbes, Harrington, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Paine, and Bentham. |
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... action , until we attain better founded ideas than most of us now possess as to what in general we expect to accomplish through our agencies of civil government . The issue between conservatism and progressivism has , in this country as ...
... action , until we attain better founded ideas than most of us now possess as to what in general we expect to accomplish through our agencies of civil government . The issue between conservatism and progressivism has , in this country as ...
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... action at any time , were in general accepted as sufficiently sanctioned by religion and custom . This attitude afforded no foundation for a study of the origin or justification of the state or for an examination of the comparative ...
... action at any time , were in general accepted as sufficiently sanctioned by religion and custom . This attitude afforded no foundation for a study of the origin or justification of the state or for an examination of the comparative ...
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... actions in which they are most likely to forget or to be deceived , and he who remembers and is not deceived is to be selected , and he who fails in the trial is to be rejected . That will be the way ? Yes . And there should also be ...
... actions in which they are most likely to forget or to be deceived , and he who remembers and is not deceived is to be selected , and he who fails in the trial is to be rejected . That will be the way ? Yes . And there should also be ...
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... actions be true to the name ? For example , in the use of the word " father , " would the care of a father be implied and the filial reverence and duty and obedience to him which the law commands ; and is the violator of these duties to ...
... actions be true to the name ? For example , in the use of the word " father , " would the care of a father be implied and the filial reverence and duty and obedience to him which the law commands ; and is the violator of these duties to ...
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... action of their lives and in every branch of knowledge come at last to their consummation : the time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the universal light which lightens all things , and behold the absolute ...
... action of their lives and in every branch of knowledge come at last to their consummation : the time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the universal light which lightens all things , and behold the absolute ...
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Page 184 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Page 187 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great : ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God's : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 280 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 297 - 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...
Page 299 - A law of nature, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
Page 279 - Many there be that complain of divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 187 - Thus saith the LORD ; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor : and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Page 311 - ... confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills, by plurality of voices, unto one will...
Page 296 - For as the nature of foul weather, lyeth not in a shower or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many days together; so the nature of war, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.
Page 298 - The right of nature, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgment and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.