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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... whole tribe of hunters and actors , of whom one large class have to do with forms and colors ; another will be the votaries of music - poets and their attendant train of rhapsodists , players , dancers , contractors ; also makers of ...
... whole tribe of hunters and actors , of whom one large class have to do with forms and colors ; another will be the votaries of music - poets and their attendant train of rhapsodists , players , dancers , contractors ; also makers of ...
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... whole army , which will have to go out and fight with the invaders for all that we have , as well as for the things and persons whom we were describing above . Why ? he said ; are they not capable of defending themselves ? No , I said ...
... whole army , which will have to go out and fight with the invaders for all that we have , as well as for the things and persons whom we were describing above . Why ? he said ; are they not capable of defending themselves ? No , I said ...
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... whole ; we thought that in a state which is ordered with a view to the good of the whole we should be most likely to find justice , and in the ill - ordered state injustice : and , having found them , we might then decide which of the ...
... whole ; we thought that in a state which is ordered with a view to the good of the whole we should be most likely to find justice , and in the ill - ordered state injustice : and , having found them , we might then decide which of the ...
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... whole beautiful . And so I say to you , do not compel us to assign to the guardians a sort of happiness which will make them anything but guardians ; for we too can clothe our husbandmen in royal apparel , and set crowns of gold on ...
... whole beautiful . And so I say to you , do not compel us to assign to the guardians a sort of happiness which will make them anything but guardians ; for we too can clothe our husbandmen in royal apparel , and set crowns of gold on ...
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... whole , and considers how a state can best deal with itself and with other states ? There certainly is . And what is this knowledge , and among whom is it found ? I asked . It is the knowledge of the guardians , he replied , and is ...
... whole , and considers how a state can best deal with itself and with other states ? There certainly is . And what is this knowledge , and among whom is it found ? I asked . It is the knowledge of the guardians , he replied , and is ...
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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.