Justice: Being Part IV of The Principles of EthicsD. Appleton, 1892 - 299 pages |
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... - THE KANTIAN IDEA OF RIGHTS 263 ... APPENDIX B. - THE LAND - QUESTION ... 266 ... APPENDIX C.- -THE MORAL MOTIVE ... ... 271 APPENDIX D. - CONSCIENCE IN ANIMALS ... 277 JUSTICE . CHAPTER I. ANIMAL - ETHICS . § 1. viii CONTENTS .
... - THE KANTIAN IDEA OF RIGHTS 263 ... APPENDIX B. - THE LAND - QUESTION ... 266 ... APPENDIX C.- -THE MORAL MOTIVE ... ... 271 APPENDIX D. - CONSCIENCE IN ANIMALS ... 277 JUSTICE . CHAPTER I. ANIMAL - ETHICS . § 1. viii CONTENTS .
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... land - tenure any more than they affected the tenure of men as slaves or serfs ; and they now make acceptance of the proposition difficult . If , while possessing those ethical sentiments which social discipline has now produced , men ...
... land - tenure any more than they affected the tenure of men as slaves or serfs ; and they now make acceptance of the proposition difficult . If , while possessing those ethical sentiments which social discipline has now produced , men ...
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... land by using several teams of oxen , or by hiring peasants in the nearest villages to come and plough for them ; and instead of abandoning the land after raising two or three crops they retained possession of it . Thus the whole of the ...
... land by using several teams of oxen , or by hiring peasants in the nearest villages to come and plough for them ; and instead of abandoning the land after raising two or three crops they retained possession of it . Thus the whole of the ...
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... land is not likely to strike root ; each family insists on possessing a certain quantity rather than a certain plot of land , and contents itself with a right of usufruct , whilst the right of property remains in the hands of the ...
... land is not likely to strike root ; each family insists on possessing a certain quantity rather than a certain plot of land , and contents itself with a right of usufruct , whilst the right of property remains in the hands of the ...
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... land subordinating the general claims . But conquest from without has everywhere been chiefly instrumental in superseding communal proprietorship by individual proprietorship . It is not to be supposed that in times when captive men ...
... land subordinating the general claims . But conquest from without has everywhere been chiefly instrumental in superseding communal proprietorship by individual proprietorship . It is not to be supposed that in times when captive men ...
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Page 52 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 53 - Even an Act of Parliament made against natural equity, as to make a man judge in his own case, is void in itself: for jura naturae sunt immutabilia, and they are leges legum.
Page 53 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 94 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 274 - It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he ia a parent of the future; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.
Page 52 - Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Page 94 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 17 - And as before so here, we see that, ethically considered, this law implies that each individual ought to receive the benefits and the evils of his own nature and consequent conduct: neither being prevented from having whatever good his actions normally bring to him, nor allowed to shoulder off on to other persons whatever ill is brought to him by his actions.