 | John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips - History - 2006 - 916 pages
...describes the law of nature, for example, as teaching "all Mankind, who will but consult it, that ... no one ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty, or Possessions" (Locke 1988, #6). This tells us that while the teachings of the law of nature are available to anyone... | |
 | Daniel N. Shaviro - Business & Economics - 2006 - 13 pages
...state of nature features a recognizable social order based on general acceptance of the principle that "no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." (Locke, section 6). Property rights 28 are therefore viewed as pre-political, rather than as merely... | |
 | Laura V. Siegal - Philosophy - 2006 - 374 pages
...our freedom, and Locke states them just two sections later. The law of nature, he says, tells us that 'no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions' (II, 6). Taken together these constitute the basis of the liberal political philosophy, famously explored... | |
 | Robert Smith - History - 2007 - 318 pages
...everyone, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that having all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another...sovereign master, sent into the world by his order, 2. John Locke, "An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent of the End of Civil Government" ( 1690),... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - Law - 2007 - 590 pages
...nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that, being all...another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.... Chapter V 26. God, who has given the world to men in common, has also given them reason to make use... | |
 | David A. Reisman - Medical - 2009 - 369 pages
...state of nature which was a source of absolute obligation: 'And reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that, being all...another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions' (Locke, 1993 [1689]: 263-4). The right to life or liberty might be cancelled out by a crime and the... | |
 | W. Noel Keyes - Bioethics - 2007 - 1234 pages
...and French revolutions. The words of the philosopher John Locke in 1 664 were that reason "teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all...another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." These words justified the "bloodless English revolution" of 1 688, which finally ended the absolutism... | |
 | Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela R. Aall - Political Science - 2007 - 766 pages
...fiduciary arrangement. This is because people are rational and because "Reason," in Locke's words, "teaches all Mankind, who will but consult it, that being all...ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty or Possessions."4 Locke's doctrine of natural rights and FEN OSLER HAMPSON AND DAVID MENDELOFF his views... | |
 | J. Thomas Wren - Political Science - 2007 - 423 pages
...'has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all...ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.'16 Here , in conjunction with his original law of nature, we see Locke first propounding... | |
 | W. David Clinton - Philosophy - 2007 - 272 pages
...in line with something like a "law of nature," one, as Locke has it, "which obliges everyone . . . that being all equal and independent, no one ought...another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." 28 As a result of these assumptions, states composed of reasonably contented individuals will (1) cooperate,... | |
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The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty... 
