| Jonathan Haslam - 2002 - 278 pages
...precluded justice and - although not addressed explicitly - most certainly any idea of a law of nations: "Where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice . . "196 And it is striking that instead of "society", Hobbes prefers the colder, more mechanistic... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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...of 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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