| Robert M. Cover - 1975 - 340 páginas
...metaphysically true they are morally and politically false." For choices in governments are of a different sort: The rights of men in governments are their advantages;...between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil.47 In 1775 one would be more likely to come upon James Burgh's radical applications of natural... | |
| James Chandler - 1984 - 338 páginas
...respected. Only the pretended rights of man are extremes. The real rights of man, he says, "are always in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned" (3:3 13).4 To illustrate how he thinks abstract ideas behave in the human middle, Burke offers an analogy... | |
| 1987 - 432 páginas
...Edmund Burke makes the issue more complex by taking it a little further. He says that "The rights of man are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned"590. This view would appear to place a burden on the proponents of the African Charter on... | |
| Yoram Dinstein - 1989 - 342 páginas
...such, but believes that these cannot be simply discovered by reason or intuition. "The rights of man are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned".18 The process for discerning them, however, is a very difficult one. Apart from certain... | |
| Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 páginas
...considerations of rights from social circumstances, or to define real rights in any abstract terms: "The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of...discerned. The rights of men in governments are their ad vantages; and these are often in balances between differences of good; in compromises sometimes... | |
| David Simpson - 1993 - 264 páginas
...years" (p. 180) as the alternative to that metaphysics and mathematics. It has taught him that "the rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned" (p. 153). This had been the rhetoric of the membership of the Royal Society, as reported by Sprat.65... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 páginas
...mysterious importance, to tell to them its powers, in these words — "The Rights of men in government are their advantages; and these are often in balances between differences of good; and in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil. Political... | |
| Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger - 1997 - 272 páginas
...remember that any integer multiplied by two is even.) CHAPTER 3 Two dimensions: Elusive equilibrium The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. . . . Political reason is a computing principle; adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally... | |
| Steven Blakemore - 1997 - 268 páginas
..."abstract rights" can be "metaphysically true" but "morally and politically false": The Rights of Man in governments are their advantages; and these are often in balances between differences of good; and in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil. Political... | |
| R. T. Allen - 294 páginas
...extremes: and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of...good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and what is not for their benefit. (Ibid., pp. 126-7)... | |
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