 | Edwin De Witt Dickinson - Congresses and conventions - 1920 - 448 pages
...eternal word born with them, to wit, their natural reason." Elsewhere it was defined as precepts or rules found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to...to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.4 1 Leviathan, Review and Conclusion, pp. 526-527. 2 Dominion, XIV, 1, in English Works,... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Ethics - 1920 - 494 pages
...without making it a principle, he made it both. His conception of a Law of Nature is " a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life."* Therefore, seeing that universal, unrestrained self-assertion means the state of universal war, it... | |
 | Oswald Fred Boucke - Economics - 1921 - 464 pages
...true doctrine of the laws of nature is the true moral philosophy," 23 a "law of nature is a precept or general rule found out by reason, by which a man is...that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved." 24 So all judgments are relative both as between nations or individuals, and as between one situation... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1924 - 758 pages
...of speech," Leviathan 17. ' Ibid 20. s Ibid 63. «Ibid. s Ibid 62. 6"A LAW op NATURB is a preceptor general! Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man...that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved," ibid 64. 7 Ibid chaps, xiv, xv. 8 •' These dictates of Reason, men use to call by the name of Lawes... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...life and member, as much as in us lies'.2 Again, 'a law of nature, lex naturalis, is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...to omit that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved'.3 In interpreting these definitions we have, of course, to avoid attaching to the word 'law'... | |
 | Peter Berkowitz - Philosophy - 2000 - 256 pages
...carefully conceived formal definition. On the one hand, Hobbes defines a law of nature as "a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved."68 On the other hand, Hobbes defines law as "not counsel, but command; nor a command of... | |
 | Charles R. Beitz - Political Science - 1999 - 268 pages
...which the parties do what is in their own interests, and by his conception of a law of nature as a rule "by which a man is forbidden to do that, which is...his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same."88 Our problem in assessing the prescriptive use of the international version of the state of... | |
 | Preston T. King - Philosophy - 1999 - 374 pages
...nature', says Hobbes (meaning any law of nature at all, fundamental or otherwise) 'is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden [my italics] to do that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - United Kingdom, Great Britain - 1996 - 628 pages
...reason shall dictate to him. A LAW OF NATURE, (LexNaturalis, ) is a Precept, or generall Rule, A Law of found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which Mature wha is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of presening the same; and to omit,... | |
 | Christina Petsoulas - Hayek - 2001 - 220 pages
...18 Leviathan, ch. 13,p.88. 19 Leviathan, ch. 13, p.90. 20 A law of nature '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' (Leviathan, ch. 14, p. 91). 21 Leviathan, A. 14, p.91. 22 Leviathan, ch. 14, p.92. 23 Leviathan, ch.... | |
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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... 
