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" A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature,... "
Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ... - Page 109
by Herbert Spencer - 1868 - 523 pages
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Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy

Tommy Lee Lott - Philosophy - 1998 - 388 pages
...is, "nothing more evident, than that Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the...equal one amongst another without Subordination or Subjection."7 This is obviously a moral claim, or rule. The word "should" leaves no doubt about this....
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The Individual and the Political Order: An Introduction to Social and ...

Norman E. Bowie, Robert L. Simon - Equality - 1998 - 284 pages
..."there [is] 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...be equal one amongst another without subordination and subjection."33 Locke can be read here as maintaining that given that humans are basically similar...
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Natural Rights and the New Republicanism

Michael P. Zuckert - History - 1998 - 426 pages
...being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one among another without subordination or subjection. That passage becomes this in Gordon's text: Nature...
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Liberty, Equality, and the Market: Essays

Борис Николаевич Чичерин - Political Science - 1998 - 508 pages
...is nothing more evident, than that Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one among another without Subordination or Subjection."5 But such reasoning also applies equally well to...
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Locke's Education for Liberty

Nathan Tarcov - Education - 1999 - 292 pages
...is "nothing more evident, than that Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the...amongst another without Subordination or Subjection" and that servants serve masters only under contract.157 He also denounces there the theorists of absolute...
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Civil Rights and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy

Bradley C. S. Watson - Philosophy - 1999 - 232 pages
...being nothing more evident, than that Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the...amongst another without Subordination or Subjection, unless the Lord and Master of them all, should by any manifest Declaration of his Will set one above...
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Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

Uday Singh Mehta - Philosophy - 1999 - 250 pages
...being nothing more evident, than that Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the...amongst another without Subordination or Subjection." 16 Locke's point, here and elsewhere, is not that human beings are devoid of all natural obligations...
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Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

Uday Singh Mehta - Philosophy - 1999 - 250 pages
...being nothing more evident, than that Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the...equal one amongst another without Subordination or Subjection."16 Locke's point, here and elsewhere, is not that human beings are devoid of all natural...
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Modern Political Philosophy

Richard Hudelson - Philosophy - 1999 - 196 pages
...is "nothing more evident than that Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the...equal one amongst another without Subordination or Subjection."7 The same idea, that an equality of rights is based upon a prior equality of nature, is...
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Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space

Radhika Mohanram - Social Science - 1999 - 272 pages
...being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and ranks promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal without subordination or subjection. . Second Treatise 309; Para 4) In this passage, Locke ties bodily...
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