 | Micheline Ishay - 2007 - 590 pages
...A law of nature what. Difference of right and law. A LAW OF NATURE, lex naturalis, 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.... | |
 | Sean Coyle - 2007 - 218 pages
...famously contrasted right and law: 'For though they that speak of this subject use to confound Ius and Lex, Right and Law, yet they ought to be distinguished; because RIGHT consisteth in the liberty to do or to forebear, whereas LAW determined! and bindeth to one of them: so that Law and... | |
 | Philip Pettit - 2009 - 192 pages
...conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves" (L 15.41).6 "A 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" (L 15.3). Hobbes takes the theorems of natural law to have two implications that bear on what each... | |
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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... 
