 The Commonwealth seems to me to be a Society of Men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing of their own Civil Interests. Civil Interests I call Life, Liberty, Health, and Indolency of Body; and the Possession of outward things,...  Critiques and Addresses - Page 16by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1873 - 350 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1873 - 342 lehte
...other end than the peace, safety, and public good of the people." 1 Just as in the case of Hobbes, so in that of Locke, it may at first sight appear...famous " Letter concerning Toleration," Locke says : — <c The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving,... | |
 | Hugh Francis Russell-Smith - 1911 - 160 lehte
...firm. He made a complete distinction of the objects of the two societies. "The Commonwealth," he wrote, "seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, the preserving and the advancing their own civil interests. Civil interests I call life, liberty, health... | |
 | Hermann Levy - 1913 - 152 lehte
...his view from a want which implies an unattained aim and an act of will directed to its attainment. " The Commonwealth seems to me to be a Society of Men constituted only for the procuring and preserving and advancing their own civil interest. Civil interest I call Life, Liberty, Inviolability... | |
 | John Locke - 1967 - 548 lehte
...Locke's Epistola de Toleraatia (169y, that is, closer to this chapter than to the text as a whole): 'The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for procuring, preserving their own tin'l interests (hona civ ilia). . .therefore is the magistrate armed... | |
 | John W. Yolton - 1977 - 364 lehte
...power to appeal to, there they are still in the state of nature. 90. Tokration, Works, VI, pp. 9-45 The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men...only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing theii own civil interests. Civil interest I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and... | |
 | Susan Mendus - 1988 - 280 lehte
...terms. For example, early in the Letter on Toleration, he says in an apparently definitional tone: 'The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for preserving and advancing their civil goods' (p. 66), where civil goods are defined as 'life, liberty,... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1990 - 344 lehte
...or inclines toward a government that defines for its subjects their happiness, virtue, or salvation: The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted solely for the preservation and advancing of civil goods. Civil goods I call life, liberty, the integrity... | |
 | Werner Maihofer, Gerhard Sprenger - 1990 - 548 lehte
...there the first traces of another, more fundamental argument as well. "The commonwealth', Locke writes, 'seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for preserving and advancing their civil goods. What I call civil goods are life, liberty, bodily health... | |
 | Jeremy Waldron - 1993 - 500 lehte
...define government in functional terms. Early in the Letter, he says in an apparently definitional tone: "The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for preserving 92 and advancing their civil goods" (p. 17), where civil goods are defined as "life, liberty,... | |
 | Margaret Lucille Kekewich - 1994 - 276 lehte
...a concernment for the interest of men's souls, and, on the other side, a care of the commonwealth. The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men...only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing of their own civil interests. Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body;... | |
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