Natural Right and Political Right: Essays in Honor of Harry V. JaffaThomas B. Silver, Peter W. Schramm |
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... nature as animated by two contradictory passions - vanity and fear of death . In the state of nature vanity was the predominate passion because it was able to deceive men into risking their lives in the belief that they were actually ...
... nature as animated by two contradictory passions - vanity and fear of death . In the state of nature vanity was the predominate passion because it was able to deceive men into risking their lives in the belief that they were actually ...
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... nature becomes indifferent to him by dint of becoming familiar . " 52 Nothing in the human constitution or nature thus impels man to civil society . Not knowing the fears of death he does not exhibit the frenzied motion of Hobbes's natural ...
... nature becomes indifferent to him by dint of becoming familiar . " 52 Nothing in the human constitution or nature thus impels man to civil society . Not knowing the fears of death he does not exhibit the frenzied motion of Hobbes's natural ...
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... nature is wholly a solipsistic or historical creation , it soon becomes clear that the demand that politics conform to one's own idea of the good receives a terrific impetus . Indeed , as I have argued , the thrust of modernity releases ...
... nature is wholly a solipsistic or historical creation , it soon becomes clear that the demand that politics conform to one's own idea of the good receives a terrific impetus . Indeed , as I have argued , the thrust of modernity releases ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Dante and the Rediscovery of Political Philosophy | 9 |
Jefferson and the Practice of Empire | 27 |
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