Readings in Political PhilosophySelections from Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Marsiglio, Machiavelli, Calvin, the Vindiciae contra tyrannos, Bodin, Hooker, Grotius, Milton, Hobbes, Harrington, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Paine, and Bentham. |
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... never bestowed any attention upon them . How then will he who takes up a shield or other implement of war become a good fighter all in a day , whether with heavy - armed or any other kind of troops ? Yes , he said , the tools which ...
... never bestowed any attention upon them . How then will he who takes up a shield or other implement of war become a good fighter all in a day , whether with heavy - armed or any other kind of troops ? Yes , he said , the tools which ...
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... never saw her ; nothing could be more ridiculous . Like people who go about looking for what they have in their hands - that was the way with us - we looked not at what we were seeking , but at what was far off in the distance ; and ...
... never saw her ; nothing could be more ridiculous . Like people who go about looking for what they have in their hands - that was the way with us - we looked not at what we were seeking , but at what was far off in the distance ; and ...
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... never troubles them - they would rather not tire themselves by thinking about possibilities ; but assuming that what they desire is already granted to them , they proceed with their plan , and delight in detailing what they mean to do ...
... never troubles them - they would rather not tire themselves by thinking about possibilities ; but assuming that what they desire is already granted to them , they proceed with their plan , and delight in detailing what they mean to do ...
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... never know . The way will be this : -dating from the day of the hymeneal , the bridegroom who was then married will call all the male children who are born in the seventh and the tenth month afterwards his sons , and the female children ...
... never know . The way will be this : -dating from the day of the hymeneal , the bridegroom who was then married will call all the male children who are born in the seventh and the tenth month afterwards his sons , and the female children ...
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... never quarrel among themselves there will be no danger of the rest of the city being divided either against them or against one another . None whatever . I hardly like even to mention the little meannesses of which they will be rid ...
... never quarrel among themselves there will be no danger of the rest of the city being divided either against them or against one another . None whatever . I hardly like even to mention the little meannesses of which they will be rid ...
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Page 184 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Page 187 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great : ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God's : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 280 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 297 - In such condition there is no place for Industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth ; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea ; no commodious Building ; no instruments of moving...
Page 299 - 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 may be best preserved.
Page 279 - Many there be that complain of divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 187 - Thus saith the LORD ; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor : and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Page 311 - ... confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills, by plurality of voices, unto one will...
Page 296 - For as the nature of foul weather, lyeth not in a shower or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many days together; so the nature of war, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.
Page 298 - The right of nature, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgment and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.