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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... equals should defend themselves against equals we shall maintain to be honorable and right ; we shall make the protection of the person a matter of necessity . That is good , he said . Yes ; and there is a further good in the law ; viz ...
... equals should defend themselves against equals we shall maintain to be honorable and right ; we shall make the protection of the person a matter of necessity . That is good , he said . Yes ; and there is a further good in the law ; viz ...
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... equals in experience and falling short of them in no particular of virtue , also know the very truth of each thing ? There can be no reason , he said , for rejecting those who have this greatest of all great qualities ; they must always ...
... equals in experience and falling short of them in no particular of virtue , also know the very truth of each thing ? There can be no reason , he said , for rejecting those who have this greatest of all great qualities ; they must always ...
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... equals ought to have equality . But there still remains a question ; equality or inequality of what ? here is a ... equal in their art , there is no reason why those of them who are better born should have better flutes given to ...
... equals ought to have equality . But there still remains a question ; equality or inequality of what ? here is a ... equal in their art , there is no reason why those of them who are better born should have better flutes given to ...
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... equal in one thing ought not to be equal in all , nor those who are unequal in one thing to be unequal in all , it is certain that all forms of government which rest on either of these principles are perversions . All men have a claim ...
... equal in one thing ought not to be equal in all , nor those who are unequal in one thing to be unequal in all , it is certain that all forms of government which rest on either of these principles are perversions . All men have a claim ...
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... equal " ; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state , and the common good of the citizens . And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed . He ...
... equal " ; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state , and the common good of the citizens . And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed . He ...
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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.