| Benson Bobrick - 2001 - 394 páginas
...Reach of their natural Faculties." Meanwhile, Thomas Hobbes had denned a law of nature as "a precept of general rule found out by reason, by which a man is...forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life." And Hugo Grotius had given the doctrine a secular sanction when he insisted on the validity of natural... | |
| Friedrich Lohmann - 2002 - 482 páginas
...Reason, hee shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto. [...] A Law Of Nature [...] is a Precept, or general! Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man...that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.« 102 Vgl. Bielefeld!, 155f. 103 Vgl. insbesondere das zweite (Leviathan Kap. 14 [engl. S. 67, dt. S.... | |
| 2002 - 298 páginas
...axiom. Here is Hobbes's definition of law of nature: A law of nature, (Lex Naturalis,) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man...that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved. 120 Clearly the connection between that and peace, though close, is synthetic and contingent. (Following... | |
| Thomas DiPiero - 2002 - 356 páginas
...as a "Fundamentall Law of Nature"; he defined such a law (Lex Naturalis) as a "Precept, or generall Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden...that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved." 106 As Althusser noted, Hobbes conceptualized the law of nature as an unchanging set of organizing... | |
| Chris Brown, Terry Nardin, Nicholas Rengger - 2002 - 634 páginas
...his judgement, and reason shall dictate to him. A LAW OF NATURE, (lex naturolis), is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinks it may be best preserved. For though they that speak of this subject, use to confound jus, and... | |
| Ross Harrison - 2003 - 292 páginas
...preservation of life or limb' [2.1]. In Leviathan, he says that a 'law of nature' is 'a precept or general rule found out by reason by which a man is...life or taketh away the means of preserving the same' [14.3, p. 64]. This all gives us, as he puts it in Leviathan, 'the first and fundamental law of nature,... | |
| K.L. Vaux, Sara Anson Vaux, M. Stenberg - 2002 - 276 páginas
...A law of nature what. Difference of right and law. A LAW OF NATURE, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving ihe same; and to omit that, by which he thinkcth it may be best preserved. For though they that speak... | |
| William James Bouwsma - 2002 - 328 páginas
...conditions the only right implicit in nature would forbid doing "that which is destructive of [one's] life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that, by which he thinketh it may best be preserved," for "Right consisteth in liberty to do, Whereas LAW determineth, and bindeth to... | |
| Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 430 páginas
...Leviathan are close, for Hobbes there instructs us that a law of nature 'is a Precept, or generall Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life'.'38 The need for complete obedience is confirmed in OfLawes with the reflection that any attempt... | |
| Eldon J. Eisenach - 2002 - 254 páginas
...which individuals can in fact carry out the "precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life." On this reading, civil obligation would seem to be conceived when the subject's natural body meets... | |
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