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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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The Sources of Moral Agency: Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian Theory

John Deigh - 1996 - 276 pages
...dictates of reason, men use to call by the name of laws, but improperly." L. p. 111. 60. Eg, ibid., "[L]aw. properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others," and in ch. 26, "And first it is manifest, that law in general, is not counsel, but command." L, p....
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A History of Western Political Thought

J. S. McClelland - 1996 - 826 pages
...call hy the name of Lawes; hut improperly: for they are hut Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning the defence of themselves; whereas Law, properly is the word of him, that hv right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same Theoremes, as delivered in the word...
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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes - 2008 - 516 pages
...names 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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Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political Philosophy

Douglas Kries - 1997 - 316 pages
...for they are but conclusions, or theorums concerning what conduced! to the conservation and defense of themselves; whereas law, properly, is the 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!...
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The Tapestry of the Law: Scotland, Legal Culture and Legal Theory

E. Attwooll - 1997 - 280 pages
...they were 'but Conclusions or Theoremes concerning what conduceth to. . . conservation and defence . . .whereas Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others'.6 Similarly, he claimed 'Where there is no common Power, there is no Law: where no law, no...
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International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives

David R. Mapel, Terry Nardin - 1999 - 282 pages
...can give rise to an obligation only because the official is authorized to command. As Hobbes puts it, "law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others" — a view Bentham echoes when he defines law as a command "backed by the authority of the sovereign."'5...
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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy, Volume 2

Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 2003 - 676 pages
...Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; wheras Law, properly is the 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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Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience

Michael Tooley - 1999 - 386 pages
...call them by the name of laws: "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", he continues, "if you consider the same Theorems, as delivered in the word of God, that...
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The Social Contract Theorists: Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau

Christopher W. Morris - 1999 - 262 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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Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism

Peter Berkowitz - 2000 - 256 pages
...names of laws, but improperly; for 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."'0 If it is improper to do so, why does Hobbes refer to the laws of nature as laws? In part,...
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