Why Government at All?: A Philosophical Examination of the Principles of Human Government, Involving an Analysis of the Constituents of Society, and a Consideration of the Principles and Purposes of All Human AssociationC.H. Kerr & Company, 1892 - 368 σελίδες |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Why Government at All?: A Philosophical Examination of the Principles of ... William Henry van Ornum Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2018 |
Why Government at All?: A Philosophical Examination of the Principles of ... William Henry Van Ornum Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2015 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
action advantage association become bonds cause CHAPTER condition corporation crime criminal debt depends desires despotism destroy Edward Bellamy effect enforce equality erty evils fact farmers force freedom gratification greater growth happiness Henry Thomas Buckle Herbert Spencer honor human ignorance impossible increase individual character inequality injustice intelligence interest justice Karl Marx knowledge land landlord laws of property liberty love of distinction matter means ment monopolists monopoly morals mortgage motive natural natural rights necessary needs never obtain party persons police political politicians poor possession possible poverty present principle privilege produce Progress and Poverty promote protect Proudhon punishment question reform rent restraints result rich rights of property rulers says seek selfish single tax slave slavery social society surplus value thing Thomas Paine tion trade true Victor Hugo violate wages wealth whole Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 160 - That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection.
Σελίδα 165 - If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Σελίδα 273 - A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another ; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.
Σελίδα 160 - He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right.
Σελίδα 41 - Let the parchments be ever so many, or possession ever so long, natural justice can recognize no right in one man to the possession and enjoyment of land that is not equally the right of all his fellows.
Σελίδα 310 - Formal government makes but a small part of civilized life; and when even the best that human wisdom can devise is established, it is a thing more in name and idea than in fact. It is to the great and fundamental principles of society and...
Σελίδα 128 - Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole...
Σελίδα 160 - The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
Σελίδα 311 - If we consider what the principles are that first condense men into society, and what the motives that regulate their mutual intercourse afterwards, we shall find, by the time we arrive at what is called government, that nearly the whole of the business is performed by the natural operation of the parts upon each other.
Σελίδα 310 - The more perfect civilization is, the less occasion has it for government, because the more does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself...