| Knud Haakonssen - 1996 - 404 pages
...directly with Smith, we find him adopting Smithian principles with much firmness: It is evident . . . that the most important branch of political science...run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations.'68 It is therefore by no means clear that Stewart rejects the idea of natural jurisprudence... | |
| Donald Winch - 1996 - 452 pages
...remarks in the Theory of Moral Sentiments on the science are clear enough: it was to be 'a theory of the principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations'. 2 And the observation that immediately precedes this provides the rationale for Smith's criticisms... | |
| 1998 - 394 pages
..."treatise on the laws of war and peace" Smith celebrated as perhaps the most complete "system of those principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations."" In the Lectures on Jurisprudence, which he delivered as part of his teaching duties as Professor of Moral... | |
| 1998 - 394 pages
..."treatise on the laws of war and peace" Smith celebrated as perhaps the most complete "system of those principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations."33 In the Lectures on Jurisprudence, which he delivered as part of his teaching duties as... | |
| Charles L. Griswold - 1999 - 430 pages
...normatively natural is here determined by the impartial spectator's judgment. Therefore one might argue that the "general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations" just amount to the moral psychology of The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Smith's view about the origin... | |
| Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.) - 2000 - 362 pages
...jurisprudence lectures, which correspond to the "theory" sketched at the conclusion of TMS — a theory of "the general principles which ought to run through,...and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations" — convey an extensive analysis of justice. 29. On the tensions between "the ordinary laws of justice"... | |
| Liah Greenfeld - 2009 - 566 pages
...[to] endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government" (by which he meant "the general principles which ought to run through...and be the foundation of the laws of all nations"), "and of the different revolutions they have undergone in the different ages and periods of society,... | |
| A. M. Celâl ?engör - 2001 - 68 pages
...absolute knowledge or truth. Would they be content with that? Did not Dr. Smith expect to ascertain "the principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations" (Stewart, 1793[1980], p. 109; a quote from the conclusion of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments)1!... | |
| Samuel Fleischacker - 2009 - 352 pages
...based. No appeal to the natural pungency of pain, or of sympathy with pain, can enable Smith to develop "the general principles which ought to run through...and be the foundation of the laws of all nations." Smith himself provides yet deeper resources for this point about the socially relative structure of... | |
| Martin van Gelderen, Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 428 pages
...own innovations. Granted a longer life he would have made good his promise to develop 'a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations' (Smith 1976b: 342). Like Hume, he drew a sharp contrast between the strict, though negative, obligations... | |
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