Therefore before the names of just and unjust can have place, there must be some coercive power to compel men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their... Individualism: A System of Politics - Page 267by Wordsworth Donisthorpe - 1894 - 393 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...cause of such fear be taken away ; which while men are in the natural condition of war, cannot be done. Therefore before the names of just, and unjust can...men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...cause of such fear be taken away ; which while men are in the natural condition of war, cannot be done. Therefore before the names of just, and unjust can...men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1845 - 372 pages
...iii. 130, 134: — to break a covenant, is unjust. iii. 190. whatsoever not unjust, is just. iii. 131. before the names of just and unjust can have place, there must be coercive power. iii. 131. ii. 151. vi. 29. how defined by the Schools. iii. 131. what is not against... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1879 - 322 pages
...INJUSTICE, is no other than the not performance of covenant. And whatsoever is not unjust, is just. . . . Therefore before the names of just and unjust can...men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant."*... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Ethics - 1879 - 312 pages
...covenant. And whatsoever is not unjust, is just. . . . Therefore before the names of just and nnjnst can have place, there must be some coercive power,...men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant."*... | |
| Science - 1884 - 954 pages
...is unjust, and the definition of nrjusTicE is no other than the not performance of covenant. . . . Therefore, before the names of just and unjust can...men equally to the performance of their covenants by the terror of some punishment greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant.!... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Great Britain - 1884 - 156 pages
...is unjust : and the definition of INJUSTICE, is no other than the not performance of covenant. .... Therefore before the names of just and unjust can...men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant/t... | |
| Literature - 1884 - 946 pages
...unjust : and the definition of INJUSTICE, is no other than the not performance of covenant. . '. . . Therefore before the names of just and unjust can have place, there •must be some coercive'power, to compel men equally'io the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Social sciences - 1888 - 76 pages
...is unjust : and the definition of INJUSTICE, is no other than the not performance of covenant. .... Therefore before the names of just and unjust can...men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant.... | |
| Hugh Taylor - Social ethics - 1888 - 332 pages
...substantially the same conclusion as that reached, by a different method, long ago by Hobbes, that "before the names of just and unjust can have place...to compel men equally to the performance of their covenant, by the terror of some punishment greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their... | |
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