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" Where there is no common power, there is no law : where no law, no injustice. "
The Science-history of the Universe - Page 50
by Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909
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A Philosophy of War

Alexander Moseley - 2002 - 280 pages
...that without a presiding government to legislate codes of conduct, no morality or justice can exist: Where there is no common Power, there is no Law: where no Law, no Injustice ... if there be no Power erected, or not great enough for our security; every man will and may lawfully...
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La società aperta nel difficile cammino della modernità

Rocco Pezzimenti - 2002 - 576 pages
...giustizia. È questo lo stato di natura: "The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there no place. Where there is no common Power, there is no Law" (Hobbes, L, 188). Dopo il contratto tutto ciò è personalizzato nel potere del sovrano in quanto,...
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Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Rights

Jonathan L. Gorman - 2003 - 244 pages
...posture of war.12 What, then, of justice? What of right and wrong, good and bad, rights? Hobbes says, "Justice and injustice are none of the faculties neither...the body nor mind. If they were, they might be in a man that were alone in the world, as well as his senses and passions. They are qualities that relate...
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Hobbes: Morals and Politics, Volume 6

David Daiches Raphael - 2003 - 116 pages
...consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is...where no law, no injustice.' Justice and injustice do not apply to the individual alone, they relate to society. Consequently also, in the natural state,...
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British Philosophy: Hobbes to Hume

Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 pages
...precisely Hobbes's view. In this state 'the notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.'8 Further, there is 'no dominion, no mine and...
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101 Ethical Dilemmas

Martin Cohen - 2003 - 354 pages
...consequent: that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice'. So, perhaps by stepping outside the rule of law, and attempting to dismantle the power of the Leviathan,...
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The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader

Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. Justice and injustice are none of the faculties...
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Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant

J. B. Schneewind - 2003 - 696 pages
...state of nature nothing can be unjust; the notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place; where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no transgression. No law can be unjust." Nay, temperance is no more naturally according to this civil...
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Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Context and Strategies in the Early ...

T. Hochstrasser, Peter Schro der, P. Schröder - 2003 - 364 pages
...claimed that in the state of nature "the notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have (...) no place. Where there is no common Power, there is no Law: where no Law, no Injustice".64 From this assumption, among others, Hobbes had deduced the need for sovereign power....
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Earth Circles: Baháʼí Perspectives on Global Issues

Michael Fitzgerald - 2003 - 206 pages
...consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice.2 Though the state of nature is a myth, Hobbes's point was that sovereign equals co-exist...
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