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" The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges everyone, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or... "
History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century - Page 137
by Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 935 pages
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The Concept of Equality in the Writings of Rousseau, Bentham, and Kant

Alfred Tuttle Williams - Bentham, Jeremy - 1907 - 108 pages
...of peace governed by a law of reason which tends towards justice and charity. "The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it which obliges everyone, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent,...
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The Relation of John Locke to English Deism

Samuel Gring Hefelbower - Deism - 1918 - 206 pages
...condition of the race when socially unorganized. But man is not lawless here. "The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent,...
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Development of Social Theory

James Pendleton Lichtenberger - Sociology - 1923 - 504 pages
...possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it. The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges everyone, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent,...
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A History of English Law, Volume 6

Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1924 - 758 pages
...state of perfect freedom and equality ; 5 but it was not a state of license.6 For " the state of nature has a law of nature to govern it which obliges everyone, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and 1...
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Selections

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 436 pages
...possession, but where 62 some nobler use than its bare preservation- calls for it. The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that, being all equal and independent,...
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STY Law

Rene Albert Wormser, Rene Wormser - Law - 1972 - 628 pages
...relationship of these phrases to the following statement by Locke is not accidental : "The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that all being equal and independent,...
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Evaluation in Environmental Planning: Assessing Environmental, Social ...

Donald M. McAllister - Architecture - 1982 - 324 pages
...state have an uncontrollable liberty, to dispose of his person or possession. . . . The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being equal and independent,...
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The Soul of Liberty: The Universal Ethic of Freedom and Human Rights

Fred E. Foldvary - Civil rights - 1980 - 340 pages
...are fixed, analytical, natural rules of morality whose truth can be demonstrated: The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone; and Reason, which is that law, teaches all Mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent,...
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Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthopology

George W. Stocking - Social Science - 1984 - 251 pages
...determining individual wills, Locke's state of nature was "not a State of License," not a Hobbesian anarchy; "it has a Law of Nature to govern it, which obliges everyone: and Reason which is that Law . . . teaches all Mankind who will but consult" what God's laws are. In the...
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Henry More (1614–1687) Tercentenary Studies: with a biography and ...

S. Hutton - Philosophy - 1989 - 278 pages
...yet it is not a State of Licence' ,27 He goes on to explain why. The state of nature, he tells us, has a law of nature to govern it which obliges everyone: 'And Reason, which is that Law, teaches all Mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent,...
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