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Political And Legal Obligation - Page 269
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Leviathan; Or, The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical ...

Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1886 - 328 pages
...exception, of the man, or assembly, we make our sovereign. For in the act of our "submission," consistedi both our "obligation," and our "liberty;" which must...arguments .must either be drawn from the express words, I " authorize all his actions," or from the intention of him that submitteth himself to his power,...
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Hobbes's Leviathan; Harrington's Ocean; Famous Pamphlets [A.D. 1644 to A.D ...

Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...without exception, of th^ man, or assembly, we make our sovereign. For in the act of our "submission," consisteth both our "obligation," and our " liberty...thence ; there being no obligation on any man, which ariscth not from some act of his own ; for all men equally, are by Nature free. And because such arguments...
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The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...without exception, of the man, or assembly we make our sovereign. For in the act of our "submission," consisteth both our "obligation," and our "liberty";...arguments, must either be drawn from the express words, I " authorize all his actions," or from the intention of him that submitteth himself to his power,...
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The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature ..., Volume 14

Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...without exception, of the man, or assembly, we make our sovereign. For in the act of our "submission" consisteth both our " obligation " and our " liberty...arguments must either be drawn from the express words, I " authorize all his actions," or from the intention of him that submitteth himself to his power,...
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The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 7

Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 578 pages
...without exception, of the man, or assembly, we make our sovereign. For in the act of our "submission" consisteth both our " obligation " and our " liberty...arguments must either be drawn from the express words, I " authorize all his actions," or from the intention of him that submitteth himself to his power,...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 14

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 444 pages
...without exception, of the man, or assembly, we make our sovereign. For in the act of our "submission" consisteth both our " obligation " and our " liberty...arguments must either be drawn from the express words, I " authorize all his actions," or from the intention of him that submitteth himself to his power,...
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Readings in Political Philosophy

Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 608 pages
...without exception, of the man, or assembly, we make our sovereign. For in the act of our submission, consisteth both our obligation and our liberty; which...arguments must either be drawn from the express words, "I authorize all his actions," or from the intention of him that submitteth himself to his power, which...
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The Logic of Leviathan: The Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes

David P. Gauthier - Philosophy - 1969 - 234 pages
...he ought, and it is his DUTY, not to make void that voluntary act of his own.' (EW iii, p. 119) (iv) 'there being no obligation on any man, which ariseth...his own; for all men equally, are by nature free'. (EW iii, p. 203) These passages suggest the following doctrine. To grant away one's right to perform...
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Thomas Hobbes in His Time, Volume 1

Ralph Gilbert Ross, Herbert Wallace Schneider, Theodore Waldmann - Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 - 1974 - 162 pages
..."the monster of Malmesbury." He regarded consent as necessary to obligation, and so to civil society, "there being no Obligation on any man, which ariseth...his own; for all men equally, are by Nature Free." He saw that consent needed to be underscored by a theory of authority, since the right to command did...
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Moral Principles and Political Obligations

A. John Simmons - Philosophy - 1981 - 256 pages
...denote those obligations which correlate with Hart's "special rights." 24. As Hobbes notes: "there is no obligation on any man which ariseth not from some act of his own," in Leviathan, chap. 21. 25. Leviathan, chap. 14. 26. On this argument, see Alan Gewirth, Political...
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