Liberty and Law: Being an Attempt at the Refutation of the Individualism of Mr. Herbert Spencer and the Political EconomistsS. Sonnenschein, Lowery & Company, 1888 - 377 páginas |
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Página viii
... fact that not referring to other writers amounts to exalt- ing oneself to an authority , —or perhaps he did not overlook it . Moreover , it cannot be called a digression to discuss the views of other writers on the subject , for the ...
... fact that not referring to other writers amounts to exalt- ing oneself to an authority , —or perhaps he did not overlook it . Moreover , it cannot be called a digression to discuss the views of other writers on the subject , for the ...
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... facts of the case . The question of Liberty is not one as against a conflicting authority , but one as among the ... fact that it has in this later stage , into which we are now entering , practically ceased to be a mere union of two ...
... facts of the case . The question of Liberty is not one as against a conflicting authority , but one as among the ... fact that it has in this later stage , into which we are now entering , practically ceased to be a mere union of two ...
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... fact that Liberty would be thereby destroyed instead of con- solidated ; for if everyone did as he liked , no conceivable power could prevent the rich and strong from oppressing the poor and weak , so long as human nature remained any ...
... fact that Liberty would be thereby destroyed instead of con- solidated ; for if everyone did as he liked , no conceivable power could prevent the rich and strong from oppressing the poor and weak , so long as human nature remained any ...
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... fact that he includes among public offences anything " tending to weaken the force of the religious sanction , including blasphemy and profaneness ; or tending to misapply the force of the religious sanction , in- cluding false ...
... fact that he includes among public offences anything " tending to weaken the force of the religious sanction , including blasphemy and profaneness ; or tending to misapply the force of the religious sanction , in- cluding false ...
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... fact that some of our greatest writers - I was about to say thinkers - have done so . And they have done it too with their eyes open to the fact that the measure of Liberty hitherto enjoyed has not had that good effect they expected ...
... fact that some of our greatest writers - I was about to say thinkers - have done so . And they have done it too with their eyes open to the fact that the measure of Liberty hitherto enjoyed has not had that good effect they expected ...
Términos y frases comunes
A. R. Wallace absolutely abstract absurdity actions actual Adam Smith admit aggression amount applied arise assert Bastiat believe called capital capitalist cause cent civil law civilisation conceivable course declares definition deny doctrine economists equal Ethics evolution existence fact faculties favour force freedom freedom of contract give harmony Hegel human Ibid idea individual Individualists interest J. S. Mill Jevons justice labour land landlords large numbers Laveleye laws of nature legislation Leslie Stephen Liberal live matter means merely method Mill Montesquieu morality natural laws natural right nature of things Nihilism object organisation party phenomena philosophy Political Economy positive possible present Principles of Political production Professor profit pure question reason regard rent restraint result Roscher sense Sidgwick social organism Social Statics Socialists society Spencer theory tion true vote W. K. Clifford wages wealth whole words writers
Pasajes populares
Página 204 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
Página 179 - Political economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects : first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves ; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services. It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign.
Página 44 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Página 63 - A great multitude of people are continually talking of the Law of Nature; and then they go on giving you their sentiments about what is right and what is wrong: and these sentiments, you are to understand, are so many chapters and sections of the Law of Nature.
Página 38 - But with regard to the merely contingent, or, as it may be called, constructive injury which a person causes to society, by conduct which neither violates any specific duty to the public, nor occasions perceptible hurt to any assignable individual except himself...
Página 376 - All Christians believe that the blessed are the poor and humble, and those who are ill-used by the world ; that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven...
Página 144 - The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
Página 179 - Writers on Political Economy profess to teach, or to investigate, the nature of Wealth, and the laws of its production and distribution: including, directly or remotely, the operation of all the causes by which the condition of mankind, or of any society of human beings, in respect to this universal object of human desire, is made prosperous or the reverse.
Página 53 - That thing is called free which exists from the necessity of its own nature alone, and is determined to action by itself alone. That thing, on the other hand, is called necessary, or rather compelled, which by another is determined to existence and action in a fixed and prescribed manner.
Página 50 - From this last consideration, which is a digression rather than a part of the argument, let us now return and sum up the reasons for regarding a society as an organism. It undergoes continuous growth. As it grows, its parts become unlike: it exhibits increase of structure. The unlike parts simultaneously assume activities of unlike kinds. These activities are not simply different, but their differences are so related as to make one another possible. The reciprocal aid thus given causes mutual dependence...