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" These dictates of reason men used to call by the name of laws, but improperly; for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath... "
Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 63
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study ..., Volume 24

Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1924 - 286 pages
...so-called and laws improperly so-called," and he takes his stand on the doctrine of Hobbes that " law is the word of him that by right hath command over others." Law, that is, is essentially a command ; a command becomes law in virtue of a previously existing relation...
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Studies in the History of Political Philosophy Before and After ..., Volume 1

Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1925 - 404 pages
...name of laws, but improperly. For tl1ey are but conclusions, or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas " law," properly, is the word of him that hath command over others.' This 1s surely explicit enough. What words could say more plainly that the...
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The Social & Political Ideas of Some Great Thinkers of the Sixteenth and ...

Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - 1926 - 232 pages
...but Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence ' of men," whereas Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others." Yet in a real sense they can be regarded as laws, because God has so ordered our being that we must...
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The Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective

Carl Joachim Friedrich - 1963 - 309 pages
...Hobbes insists in this context that such rules are improperly called laws, for, to speak precisely, "law properly is the word of him that by right hath command over others" (chap. xv). In other words, all laws achieve validity only when a government with the power to command...
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The Logic of Leviathan: The Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes

David P. Gauthier - 1969 - 234 pages
...the name of laws, but improperly: for they are but conclusions, or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas...word of him, that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same theorems, as delivered in the word of God, that by right commandeth...
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Thomas Hobbes in His Time, Volume 1

Ralph Gilbert Ross, Herbert Wallace Schneider, Theodore Waldmann - 1974 - 162 pages
...traditional name) are the true moral philosophy, but because, as he also says in the last paragraph, "Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others," the laws of nature are not properly called laws at all, except as God commands them, and moral philosophy,...
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L'Avenir Du Droit International Dans Un Monde Multiculturel: Colloque, La ...

René Jean Dupuy - 1984 - 514 pages
...international law is to be found in an expressive act of will by the States themselves. As Hobbes put it : "Law, properly is the word of him that by right hath command over others." But how could equally sovereign States bind each other by "an international law" when no one is commanding...
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Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition

Jean Hampton - 1986 - 318 pages
...name of Lawes; but improperly: for they are but Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves: whereas...word of him, that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same Theoremes, as delivered in the word of God, that by right commandeth...
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The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American ...

Thomas L. Pangle - 1990 - 344 pages
...improperly, for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduces to the conservation and defense of themselves, whereas law, properly, is the word of him that by right has command over others. But yet if we consider the same theorems as delivered in the word of God,...
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John Locke: Essays on the Law of Nature : the Latin Text with a Translation ...

John Locke - 2002 - 318 pages
...that Warre shall preserve life, and Peace destroy it'.4 But they were not themselves laws, because 'Law properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others';5 only if considered as delivered in the word of God, or as the commands of the commonwealth,6...
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