 | Frank Ellsworth Spaulding - Ethics - 1894 - 126 pages
...Doctrin auf die Voraussetzung der Existenz eines Naturgesetzes, worunter er versteht: „a precept or general rule, found out by reason , by which a man...that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved." (Lev. Ch. XIV. p. 116—117. Hobbes hätte, beiläufig gesagt, mit eben so viel Recht, weil auf den.)... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - Liberty - 1895 - 286 pages
...principles, as the source of the obligatoriness of the covenant of all with all, he defines as a 'precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...same ; and to omit that by which he thinketh it may best be preserved ' (I. 14). When a law of nature, however, is said to command or forbid, we must not... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - Ethics - 1897 - 476 pages
...his judgment and reason shall dictate to him. 900 A 'law of Nature,' lex naluralis, is a precept or general rule. found out by reason, by which a man...preserving the same ; and to omit that, by which he thinkcth it may be best preserved. For though they that speak of this subject, use to confound jus... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - Ethics - 1897 - 456 pages
...his judgment and reason shall dictate to him. 800 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 th«» same ; and to omit that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved. For though they that... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...according to Hobbes, are obligatory upon man as man. " A LAW OF NATURE, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...preserving the same ; and to omit that, by which he 1 Leviathan, Pt. I., chap. XIII. * Ibid., chap. VI. thinketh it may be best preserved."1 We have already... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1899 - 480 pages
...to be the aptest means thereunto. . . . "A Law of Nature (Lex Naturalis) is 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." [Jut and Lex, though commonly confounded, must be distinguished ; right is liberty, law a binding rule.]... | |
 | William Galbraith Miller - Jurisprudence - 1903 - 504 pages
...absence of external impediments " (cf. p. 96, supra). " A LAW OF NATURE, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...that speak of this subject use to confound jus and Ux, right and law, yet they ought to be distinguished : because RIGHT consisteth in liberty to do or... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...as his judgment, 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...though they that speak of this subject, use to confound 'Compare Human Nature, (M. IV, 83). 'And forasmuch as necessity of nature maketh men to will and desire... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1904 - 560 pages
...Or NATURE, (Lex Naturalis,) is a Precept, or generall Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man 1S forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his...confound Jus, and Lex, Right and Law ; yet they ought Diffrrence to be distinguished ; because RIGHT, consisteth ff Right and in liberty to do, or to forbeare... | |
 | Edgar Benton Kinkead - Jurisprudence - 1905 - 496 pages
...the moral; that the laws of nature are the sum of moral philosophy. A law of nature is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same. Right and law ought to be distinguished, because right consisteth in liberty to do, or to forbear;... | |
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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... 
