| Vickie B. Sullivan - 2006 - 304 דפים
...Hobbes with his very definition of natural law. He defines a natural law as a "Precept, or generall Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden...that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved" (91). Thus, his general definition relates to the specific purpose of the preservation of life.4 He... | |
| Stephen J. Finn - 2004 - 206 דפים
...there is a deep logical consistency to it all. A law of nature, Hobbes says, is a 'Precept, or generall Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden...life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same' (L 14.189). The first law of nature is that 'every man, ought to endeavor peace, as far as he has hope... | |
| David Lay Williams - 2010 - 356 דפים
...rather than those dictated by the order of things. In his own words, each law of nature is "a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved" (Leviathan, 14.3). The definition here implies a degree of contingency not found in the natural law... | |
| Alain Marciano, Jean-Michel Josselin - 2007 - 297 דפים
...second natural laws, and of contracts. 6. Ibid. 7. 'A law of nature, lex naturalis, is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved', ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid. 10. 'one person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with... | |
| Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - 897 דפים
...and interior design. Laws of Nature and Normativity Hobbes defined a "law of nature" as "a precept or herefore, attempt to demonstrate (L.XIV.3). He then went on to list and explain some nineteen examples (including one requiring the... | |
| Hardy Bouillon, Hartmut Kliemt - 2007 - 234 דפים
...of nature is, Hobbes tells us, a law in the general sense of a requirement of reason: "a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man...that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved." It is just in that sense, then, that he proclaims his laws of nature, the first of which is claimed... | |
| Ioannis D. Evrigenis - 2007 - 23 דפים
...to the Law of Nature is concerned, see Leviathan: "A LAW OF NATURE (lex naturalis) is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...preserving the same, and to omit that by which he thmketh it may be best preserved" (XIV § 3). 59 See the difference between propinqui and remoti, in... | |
| Norman E. Bowie, Robert L. Simon - 2008 - 294 דפים
...which otherwise are called Laws of Nature."8 According to Hobbes, "A law of nature ... is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...taketh away the means of preserving the same. And consequently, that every man ought to endeavor peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when... | |
| John Rawls - 2009 - 497 דפים
...can all be understood within the secular system. Hobbes thinks of a law of nature as "a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man...life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same" (Leviathan, p. 64 in the original 1651 edition).2 These precepts, when generally followed, are the... | |
| Russ Shafer-Landau - 2007 - 815 דפים
...according as his judgment and reason shall dictate to him. A LAW OF NATURE, lex natumlis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man...forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or takes away the means of preserving the same and to omit that by which he thinks it may be best preserved.... | |
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