„When the division of labour has been once thoroughly established, it is but a very small part of a man’s wants which the produce of his own labour can supply. He supplies the far greater part of them by exchanging that surplus part of the produce of his own labour, which is over and above his own consumption, for such parts of the produce of other men’s labour as he has occasion for. Every man thus lives by exchanging, or becomes, in some measure, a merchant, and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society.“ (p. 41) #Smith #DivisionOfLabour
Archiv der Kategorie: Politische Philosophie
Locke: Law and Tyranny
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„Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins“. (p. 252) #Locke #law #tyranny
Hobbes: A Mans Right
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„To Lay Downe a mans Right to any thing, is to Devest himselfe of the Liberty, of hindring another of the benefit of his own Right to the same. For he that renounceth, or passeth away his Right, giveth not to any other man a Right which he had not before; because there is nothing to which every man had not Right by Nature: but onely standeth out of his way, that he may enjoy his own originall Right, without hindrance from him; not without hindrance from another. So that the effect which redoundeth to one man, by another mans defect of Right, is but so much diminution of impediments to the use of his own Right originall.“ (p. 287) #Hobbes #right
Hobbes: Common Wealth
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„The finall Cause, End, or Designe of men, (who naturally love Liberty, and Dominion over others,) in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, (in which wee see them live in Common-wealths,) is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby; that is to say, of getting themselves out from that miserable condition of Warre, which is necessarily consequent (as hath been shewn) to the naturall Passions of men, when there is no visible Power to keep them in awe, and tye them by feare of punishment to the performance of their Covenants, and observation of these Lawes of Nature“. (p. 389) #Hobbes #CommonWealth #War #LawsOfNature
Hegel: Gewalt und Zwang
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„Weil der Wille, nur insofern er Dasein hat, Idee oder wirklich frei und das Dasein, in welches er sich gelegt hat, Sein der Freiheit ist, so zerstört Gewalt oder Zwang in ihrem Begriff sich unmittelbar selbst, als Äußerung eines Willens, welche die Äußerung oder Dasein eines Willens aufhebt. Gewalt oder Zwang ist daher, abstrakt genommen, unrechtlich.“ (p. 91; §92) #Hegel #Wille #SeinderFreiheit #Gewalt #Zwang