 | Philip Pettit - Philosophy - 1996 - 402 pages
...when, no doubt under the influence of republican ideas, he made his famous remark on law and liberty: 'that ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. . . . For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no liberty'... | |
 | Christine Swanton - Political Science - 1992 - 220 pages
...those actions taken together than would have been the case without R. The much criticized view that "that ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices"13 looks quite reasonable on the latter account of what counts as a limitation of options,... | |
 | Jeffrie G. Murphy - Law - 1994 - 164 pages
...an interference with freedom is not really an interference if it works for a good consequence. For "that ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices." talk of governmental rights as a trust from citizens: Accordingly, we cannot say that a man has sacrificed... | |
 | Stephen L. Darwall - History - 1995 - 376 pages
...are acting for reasons. 14 God, however, does Treatise: "For law . . . prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under that law: could they be happier without it, the law as an useless thing would of itself vanish; and that ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges... | |
 | Steven Kautz, Steven J. Kautz - Communities - 1995 - 252 pages
...direction of a free and intelligent Agent to his proper Interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general Good of those under that Law. Could they be happier without it, the Law, as an useless thing would of it self vanish; and that ill deserves the Name of Confinement which hedges... | |
 | Stephen Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...concept of limitations. Limits do not necessarily weaken; they can also strengthen. For one thing, "that ill deserves the Name of Confinement, which hedges us in only from Bogs and Precipices."106 Constitutions, moreover, can be binding in a way that engenders unprecedented possibilities.... | |
 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is on the side of pleasure, will give the general good tendency of the act, with respect to th an useless thing, would of it self vanish: and that ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges... | |
 | Jon Elster, Rune Slagstad - Philosophy - 1988 - 372 pages
...concept of limitations. Limits do not necessarily weaken; they can also strengthen. For one thing, "that ill deserves the Name of Confinement, which hedges us in only from Bogs and Precipices."99 Constitutions, moreover, can be binding in a possibility-engendering way. By having... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...points, by passlon or interest, under temptation to it. 6434 Second Treatise of Civil Government [Thatl he Ladies' When you get to a man in the case, They're...like as a row of pins For the Colonel's Lady an' Jud may be mistaken, the end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.... | |
 | Jerome B. Schneewind - Philosophy - 1998 - 652 pages
...utility. Law directs rational free agents to their own interest "and prescribes no farther than is for the general Good of those under that Law. Could they be happier without it, the Law, as an useless thing would of it self vanish." There is no suggestion here of Hooker's Thomistic belief... | |
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Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free; for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes... 
