 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 63edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Jack Lively, Andrew Reeve - 1989 - 324 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... | |
 | Yoram Dinstein - 1989 - 342 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... | |
 | A. J. Ayer - 1990 - 210 pages
...so 'improperly'. 'For,' he adds, 'they are but conclusions, or theorems, concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas...is the word of him that by right hath command over others.'2 He has already equated these theorems with moral principles, remarking that 'the science... | |
 | Stephen Gaukroger - 1991 - 288 pages
...the name of Lawes; but improperly: for they are 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... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 440 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... | |
 | Šelomo Bîderman, Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 314 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... | |
 | A. P. Martinich - 2003 - 454 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... | |
 | Preston T. King - 1993 - 552 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 commanded!... | |
 | Louis K. Dupré - 1993 - 318 pages
...instinct of selfpreservation: "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" (Leviathan I, 15, p. 217). In De cive, Hobbes more consistently acknowledged no natural law but only... | |
 | Tom Sorell - 1993 - 372 pages
...i; The Elements of Laiv, i. 14. 6, i. 15. i; pp. 71, 74-5. Hobbes adopts the same conception of law: 'Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others.' So the laws of nature are laws, strictly speaking, only as they are commands of God. 41 Hobbes's distinction... | |
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