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... ownership more and more abstract and more remote from material satisfactions . Similarly with the sentiment of justice . Beginning with the joy felt in ability to use the bodily powers and gain the resulting benefits , accompanied by ...
... ownership more and more abstract and more remote from material satisfactions . Similarly with the sentiment of justice . Beginning with the joy felt in ability to use the bodily powers and gain the resulting benefits , accompanied by ...
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... ownership by other men ; that is - by society at large . Concerning the ethical and legal recognitions of these claims to the uses of media , not very much has to be said : only the last demands much attention . We will look at each of ...
... ownership by other men ; that is - by society at large . Concerning the ethical and legal recognitions of these claims to the uses of media , not very much has to be said : only the last demands much attention . We will look at each of ...
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... ownership of land is unknown : only the usufruct belongs to the cultivator , while the land itself is tacitly regarded as the property of the tribe . It is thus now with the Sumatrans and others , and it was thus with our own ancestors ...
... ownership of land is unknown : only the usufruct belongs to the cultivator , while the land itself is tacitly regarded as the property of the tribe . It is thus now with the Sumatrans and others , and it was thus with our own ancestors ...
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... ownership of each tract was private ownership in so far as the tract belonged to a cluster of relations ; yet since the same kind of tenure continued after the population of the Mark had come to include men who were unrelated to the ...
... ownership of each tract was private ownership in so far as the tract belonged to a cluster of relations ; yet since the same kind of tenure continued after the population of the Mark had come to include men who were unrelated to the ...
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... ownership and not one of individual ownership . How was this relation changed ? How only could it be changed ? Certainly not by unforced consent . It cannot be supposed that all , or some , of the members of the community willingly ...
... ownership and not one of individual ownership . How was this relation changed ? How only could it be changed ? Certainly not by unforced consent . It cannot be supposed that all , or some , of the members of the community willingly ...
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Page 50 - 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 51 - 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 92 - 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 50 - ... own activities, but only an implied recognition of such claims in the persons of others, and by implication a prescribing of limits. Taking no note of intermediate forms of the conception, we may instance among modern forms the one which it took in the mind of Kant.
Page 92 - 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 15 - ... and spread of the most adapted varieties. 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.
Page 39 - That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions heing supplied, Bentham's dictum, ' everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one...
Page 51 - the law of nature," because its general precepts are essentially adapted to promote the happiness of man, as long as he remains a being of the same nature with which he is at present endowed, or, in other words, as long as he continues to be man, in all the variety of times, places, and circumstances, in which he has been known, or can be imagined to exist ; because it is discoverable by natural reason...
Page 51 - But at any rate they had adequate protection in their theory of Natural Law. For the Natural Law of the jurisconsults was distinctly conceived by them as a system which ought gradually to absorb civil laws, without superseding them so long as they remained unrepealed...
Page 220 - Spencer's formula of justice, "the liberty of each limited only by the like liberties of all," represents the ideal which Amercan law has had before it during its whole existence.