| Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1841 - 358 pages
...righteously, and that kings must not be obeyed unless they command us just things ; and many other such like. Before there was any government, just and unjust had...those which they forbid, unjust, by forbidding them. But private men, while they assume to themselves the knowledge of good and evil, desire to be even... | |
| Ralph Cudworth - Atheism - 1845 - 720 pages
...therefore what the legislator commands must be held for good, and what he forbids for evil." And a little afterwards : " Before there was any government, just..." It follows, therefore, that by those terms, Thou shall not kill, Thou shult not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Honour thy father and mother,... | |
| Theology - 1867 - 902 pages
...desires of Hobbes, owing to circumstances which we have already * " Legitimate kings make the tilings they command just by commanding them, and those which they forbid unjust by forbidding them." — 1'hilosoj^hical Kadi nuii's, chap. xii. detailed, had fallen into this morbid state. Accordingly,... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...was any government, just and unjust had no bcing^ their nature only being relative to some coimiwnd : and every action in its own nature is indifferent;...those which They forbid, unjust, by forbidding them. But private men, while they assume to themselves the knowledge of good and evil, desire to be even... | |
| Larry Alexander - History - 1985 - 332 pages
...instituting a sovereign provides the remedy, for he can endow moral language with objectivity. Sovereigns "make the things they command just by commanding them and those which they forbid unjust by forbidding them."37 If we accept Hobbes's account of the sovereign's commands, or his laws, as the source of justice... | |
| Norberto Bobbio - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 250 pages
...just things; and many other such like. Before there was any government, just and unjust had no beyig, their nature only being relative to some command:...and those which they forbid, unjust, by forbidding them.23 22. DeCive, VI, 13, p. 80. 23. Ibid., XII, 1, p. 158. In Leviathan: "It is manifest, that the... | |
| Preston T. King - Ethics - 1993 - 552 pages
...prejudiced critics to interpret him as asserting this kind of Hobbism. Consider, for example, the following: Legitimate kings therefore make the things they command...and those which they forbid unjust, by forbidding them.31 It belongs to the same chief power to make some common rules for all men, and to declare them... | |
| Terence Ball - Political Science - 1994 - 330 pages
...be unjust. To speak of an 'unjust law' would be to contradict oneself. For sovereigns, says Hobbes, 'make the things they command just, by commanding...and those which they forbid, unjust, by forbidding them'.52 'By a good law', he says elsewhere, I mean not a Just Law: for no Law can be Unjust. The Law... | |
| A. Biletzki - Philosophy - 1997 - 242 pages
...another's, what just, what unjust, what honest , what dishonest, what good, what evil. (De Cive, 6.9) Legitimate kings therefore make the things they command...those which they forbid, unjust, by forbidding them. (De Cive, 6.9) For the civil sovereignty.. .the makers of civil laws, are not only declarers, but also... | |
| Lawrence Busch - Social Science - 236 pages
...science and technology continue to take this same form. HOBBES:THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE Legitimate kings therefore make the things they command...those which they forbid, unjust, by forbidding them. But private men, while they assume to themselves the knowledge o/good and evil, desire to be even as... | |
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