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 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 54
Página 24
... Government is a natural pheno- menon , observable with greater or less distinctness through- out the Animal Kingdom , which , being gregarious in its nature , contracts customs , we need not inquire 24 LIBERTY AND LAW .
... Government is a natural pheno- menon , observable with greater or less distinctness through- out the Animal Kingdom , which , being gregarious in its nature , contracts customs , we need not inquire 24 LIBERTY AND LAW .
Página 26
... left undetermined , and a plunge is at once made in medias res , under the assumption that Liberty is one thing and Law another , and that everyone knows exactly what they are . There could be no greater mistake than 26 LIBERTY AND LAW .
... left undetermined , and a plunge is at once made in medias res , under the assumption that Liberty is one thing and Law another , and that everyone knows exactly what they are . There could be no greater mistake than 26 LIBERTY AND LAW .
Página 27
George Lacy. they are . There could be no greater mistake than this , and , as I have shown , the omission to make the necessary determination has invalidated almost the whole of the attempts made to fix the legitimate amount of freedom ...
George Lacy. they are . There could be no greater mistake than this , and , as I have shown , the omission to make the necessary determination has invalidated almost the whole of the attempts made to fix the legitimate amount of freedom ...
Página 32
... greater part of which is obviously for the protection of that very liberty which they profess to desire , and to prevent that very aggression which their definition declares to be unlawful . This is not the place to enter into any ...
... greater part of which is obviously for the protection of that very liberty which they profess to desire , and to prevent that very aggression which their definition declares to be unlawful . This is not the place to enter into any ...
Página 37
... greater number . It is , in reality , not merely the rule of the majority , but the absolute rule of the majority . Now , it is perfectly plain that the rule of the majority is the only clear principle that can be accepted by democratic ...
... greater number . It is , in reality , not merely the rule of the majority , but the absolute rule of the majority . Now , it is perfectly plain that the rule of the majority is the only clear principle that can be accepted by democratic ...
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...