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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... rule the younger . Clearly . And that the best of these must rule . That is also clear . Now , are not the best husbandmen those who are most devoted to husbandry ? Yes . And as we are to have the best of guardians for our city , must ...
... rule the younger . Clearly . And that the best of these must rule . That is also clear . Now , are not the best husbandmen those who are most devoted to husbandry ? Yes . And as we are to have the best of guardians for our city , must ...
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... rule of the better part over the worse . Yes , he said , I see that what you say is true . Let me further note that the manifold and complex pleasures and desires and pains are generally found in children and women and servants , and in ...
... rule of the better part over the worse . Yes , he said , I see that what you say is true . Let me further note that the manifold and complex pleasures and desires and pains are generally found in children and women and servants , and in ...
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... rule of either , both in states and individuals . I entirely agree with you . And so , I said , we may consider three out of the four virtues to have been discovered in our state . The last of those qualities which make a state virtuous ...
... rule of either , both in states and individuals . I entirely agree with you . And so , I said , we may consider three out of the four virtues to have been discovered in our state . The last of those qualities which make a state virtuous ...
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... rule in them , when philosophers are acknowledged by us to be of no use to them ? You ask a question , I said , to which a reply can only be given in a parable . Yes , Socrates ; and that is a way of speaking to which you are not at all ...
... rule in them , when philosophers are acknowledged by us to be of no use to them ? You ask a question , I said , to which a reply can only be given in a parable . Yes , Socrates ; and that is a way of speaking to which you are not at all ...
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... rule and are ruled in turn , then he is called a statesman . But all this is a mistake ; for governments differ in kind , as will be evident to any one who considers the matter according to the method which has hitherto guided us . As ...
... rule and are ruled in turn , then he is called a statesman . But all this is a mistake ; for governments differ in kind , as will be evident to any one who considers the matter according to the method which has hitherto guided us . As ...
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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.