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Corresponding to right is obligation, which Leibniz calls "moral necessity," entailing restrictions in regard to the right of others.1 Psychological motives, however, such as self-interest or pleasure, are not what make actions morally permissible or obligatory; rather, one's internal capacity to be a moral-rational agent does. [...] public utility consists of the maintenance of the material rights and obligations of all rational beings, but rights and obligations themselves are not grounded in the requirements of public utility.
...In this "right of nature" (jus naturale) obligations to others have no meaning or possibil...
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...Crotius, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, and Pufendorf, though they reache...." Because he originally identifies jus naturale with mere power in the state of nature, after the ...
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Melting-point laws do not meet any of the criteria or achieve any of the goals advanced by their supporters but do succeed in making guns too expensive for the poorer segments of society. This is manifestly unfair and wastes effort better directed toward mandatory penalties and removing guns from the hands of those with a record of violence. Constitutional problems with gun-control laws are also examined. Melting-point laws prohibit guns made of a material that melts below 800 or 1000 degrees Fahrenheit.
..., and due process of law.(151) As Thomas Hobbes wrote: . The right of nature, which writer-s commoonly call Jus Naturale, is the Liberty each man hath, to use his own powe...
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... law is derived from the Roman term jus naturale. Adherents to natural law philosophy are known as ...Norberto, Bobbio. 1993. Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition. Chicago: Univ. of C...
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.... Hobbes starts from this "state of nature," and asserts th...The Right of Nature (or jus naturale) is "the Liberty each man hath, to use his own pow...
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... also contrasts epieikeia and justice, and Hobbes translates epieikeia sometimes as "equity" (16) an... distinguishes between natural right (jus naturale) and natural law (lex naturalis). E.A. Goemer, Tho...