 | Micheline Ishay - 1997 - 560 pages
...found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or takes away the means of preserving the same and to omit that by which he thinks it may be best preserved. For though they that speak of this subject use to confound jus and... | |
 | Michael P. Zuckert - 1998 - 426 pages
...it. We are perhaps to understand the natural law somewhat as Hobbes did, as "a precept or generall rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden...his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same."61 Locke nowhere argues systematically for such a position, but there are numerous suggestions... | |
 | Charles R. Beitz - 1999 - 268 pages
...which the parties do what is in their own interests, and by his conception of a law of nature as a rule "by which a man is forbidden to do that, which is...his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same."88 Our problem in assessing the prescriptive use of the international version of the state of... | |
 | Preston T. King - 1999 - 374 pages
...same text: 'A law of nature', says Hobbes (meaning any law of nature at all, fundamental or otherwise) 'is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden [my italics] to do that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1996 - 628 pages
...reason shall dictate to him. A LAW OF NATURE, (LexNaturalis, ) is a Precept, or generall Rule, A Law of found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which Mature wha is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of presening the same; and to omit,... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - 2001 - 394 pages
...Reach of their natural Faculties." Meanwhile, Thomas Hobbes had denned a law of nature as "a precept of general rule found out by reason, by which a man is...forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life." And Hugo Grotius had given the doctrine a secular sanction when he insisted on the validity of natural... | |
 | Chris Brown, Terry Nardin, Nicholas Rengger - 2002 - 634 pages
...him, according as his judgement, and reason shall dictate to him. A LAW OF NATURE, (lex naturolis), is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason,...preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinks it may be best preserved. For though they that speak of this subject, use to confound jus, and... | |
 | K.L. Vaux, Sara Anson Vaux, M. Stenberg - 2002 - 276 pages
...of natural law and distinguishes right and law. A law of nature what. Difference of right and law. A LAW OF NATURE, lex naturalis, is a precept or general...of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving ihe same; and to omit that, by which he thinkcth it may be best preserved. For though they that speak... | |
 | Ross Harrison - 2003 - 292 pages
...longest possible preservation of life or limb' [2.1]. In Leviathan, he says that a 'law of nature' is 'a precept or general rule found out by reason...life or taketh away the means of preserving the same' [14.3, p. 64]. This all gives us, as he puts it in Leviathan, 'the first and fundamental law of nature,... | |
 | William James Bouwsma - 2002 - 328 pages
...conditions the only right implicit in nature would forbid doing "that which is destructive of [one's] life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that, by which he thinketh it may best be preserved," for "Right consisteth in liberty to do, Whereas LAW determineth, and bindeth to... | |
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A LAW OF NATURE, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life... 
