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" The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned.... "
Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Página 105
por Edmund Burke - 1804
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Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process

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...
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Wordsworth's Second Nature: A Study of the Poetry and Politics

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...
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Le plateau continental dans la Convention de 1982 sur le droit de la mer

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...
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Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 1982, Volumen12

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...
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution

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...
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Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Revolt Against Theory

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...
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Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76): Common Sense / The American ...

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...
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Analytical Politics

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...
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Intertextual War: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the Writings of ...

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...
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Beyond Liberalism: The Political Thought of F. A. Hayek and Michael Polanyi

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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