 | John Rawls - Philosophy - 2009 - 497 pages
...exercise political authority over the rest of humankind; and (ii) The fact of equality: that we are "Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature [with respect to establishing political authority] and the use of the same faculties [powers of natural... | |
 | Norman E. Bowie, Robert L. Simon - Philosophy - 2008 - 294 pages
...of life possible, all humans are sufficiently alike to qualify as possessors. As John Locke puts it: There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank . . . born to all the same advantages of nature and the use of the same faculties should also be equal... | |
 | N. D. Arora, S. S. Awasthy - India - 2007 - 472 pages
...power a right, and derive it from its original, we must consider... A state also of equality, where in all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than others." Rousseau differentiated between two kinds of inequality — natural inequality and conventional... | |
 | Richard Allen Williams - Medical - 2007 - 410 pages
...in a democratic society (although he himself was a slaveholder of note). Locke stated that there was nothing "more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank, . . . born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be... | |
 | Jörg Kühnelt - Philosophy - 2008 - 210 pages
...state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions (...), A state also of equality, wherein all the power and...evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank (. . .) should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection (. . .)". Locke... | |
 | Steven Lecce - Political Science - 2008 - 361 pages
...natural freedom and equality - amounts to the claim that there is no natural right to political rule: 'all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another.'19 The law of nature commands the self-preservation of all, and within its bounds, men are... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1898 - 448 pages
...in which men " dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit " ; and further as a state of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction...rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature,1 and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination... | |
 | David Cawthon - Philosophy - 132 pages
...possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man. A state...all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one have more than another; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and... | |
 | Rik Pinxten, Ghislain Verstraete, Chia Longman - History - 2004 - 158 pages
...possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man. A state...wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal. . .' (Locke 1690: §2.4). This state of Nature was governed by the law of Nature which could be known... | |
 | Walter L. Battaglia - Philosophy - 2005 - 499 pages
...the beginning, there was the State of Nature. Locke shares Hobbes assumption that in nature, there is "A State also of Equality, wherein all the Power and...Jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another: . . ."20 Locke goes on to find a moral principle in nature, "The State of Nature has a Law of Nature... | |
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... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man. 
