...on its own special lines. IV.— CONFLICTING SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS. By GDH COLE. "The body politic is a moral being possessed of a will ; and this general...constitutes for all the members of the State, in their relation to one another and to it, the rule of what is just or unjust." " Every political society is...

...cosmopolitan. Economy, published in the Encyclopaedia of 1755, wherein he said : " The body politic is a moral being possessed of a will ; and this general...another and to it, the rule of what is just or unjust." He further expounded it, with frequent iteration, in his Social Contract, wherein he carefully distinguished...

...Social Contract, bk. i. ch. vi. ' general will,' then is it not only ' the source of the laws, but constitutes for all the members of the State, in their...another and to it, the rule of what is just or unjust.' 1 Now it is not necessary to suppose that the mere existence of the State implies more than a ' general...

...only ' the source of the laws, but constitutes for all the members of the State, in their relat1ons to one another and to it, the rule of what is just or unjust.' 1 Now it is not necessary to suppose that the mere existence of the State implies more than a ' general...

...of each part, and which is the source of the laws, is, for all the members of the state, in relation to one another and to it, the rule of what is just and what unjust; a truth which, incidentally, shows with how little sense so many w riters have treated...

...a will; and this general will, which tends always to the preservation and welfare of the whole and every part, and is the source of the laws, constitutes...if everything ordained by the law were not lawful." His rupture with Hobbes came instead over the question of the way in which the sovereign represented...

...will, which always tends to the preservation and welfare of the whole and of every part, and which is the source of the laws, constitutes for all the members of the State, 1 DI, p. 245. • DP, p. 253. in their relations to one another and to it, the rule of what is just...

...his own property can hardly be said to be a "natural", let alone a "sacred" right. of the laws, and constitutes for all the members of the state, in their relations to one another, the rule of what is just or unjust. Here, in the notion of the body politic being an organism with...

...recourse to any higher law. As Rousseau states in the Economie politique, the general will is 'for all members of the State, in their relations to one another and to it, the rule of what is just and unjust'.63 According to this view, Rousseau's arguments threaten the very foundations of the classical...

...and of each part, and which is the source of the laws; is, for all members of the state, in relation to one another and to it, the rule of what is just and unjust.6 Rousseau's account of public virtue proceeds in terms of a distinction between the realm...