„And that all men may be restrained from invading others rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of nature be observed, which willeth the peace and preservation of all mankind, the execution of the law of nature is, in that state, put into every man’s hands, whereby every one has a right to punish the transgressors of that law to such a degree, as may hinder its violation: for the law of nature would, as all other laws that concern men in this world ‚be in vain, if there were no body that in the state of nature had a power to execute that law, and thereby preserve the innocent and restrain offenders. And if any one in the state of nature may punish another for any evil he has done, every one may do so: for in that state of perfect equality, where naturally there is no superiority or jurisdiction of one over another, what any may do in prosecution of that law, every one must needs have a right to do.“ (Sect. 7) #Locke #LawOfNature
Schlagwort-Archive: Locke
Locke: Intérêts civils
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„J’appelle Intérêts civils, la vie, la Liberté, la santé du corps; la possession des biens extérieurs, tels que sont l’Argent, les Terres, les Maisons, les Meubles, & autres choses de cette nature.“ (p. 14) #Locke #IntérêtsCivils
Locke: Commonwealth
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„By commonwealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is commonwealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in English does not“. (p. 167) #Locke #commonwealth #civitas
Locke: Idea
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„[T]he word idea […] serves best to stand for whatsoever is the Object of the Understanding when a Man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by Phantasm, Notion, Species, or whatever it is, which the Mind can be employ’d about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it. I presume it will be easily granted me, that there are such Ideas in Men’s Minds; every one is conscious of them in himself, and Men’s Words and Actions will satisfy him, that they are in others.“ (Book I, Chap. 1, §8) #Locke #idea #understanding #mind #conscious
Locke: Understanding
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„Since it is the Understanding that sets Man above the rest of sensible Beings, and gives him all the Advantage and Dominion, which he has over them; it is certainly a Subject, even for its Nobleness, worth our Labour to inquire into. The Understanding, like the Eye, whilst it makes us see, and perceive all other Things, takes no notice of it self: And it requires Art and Pains to set it at a distance, and make it its own Object.“ (Book I, Chap. 1, §1) #Locke #understanding