| Martin van Gelderen, Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 428 頁
...own innovations. Granted a longer life he would have made good his promise to develop 'a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations' (Smith 1976b: 342). Like Hume, he drew a sharp contrast between the strict, though negative, obligations... | |
| Jennifer Pitts - 2009 - 400 頁
...the Theory of Moral Sentiments, where he outlines the tasks of natural jurisprudence, or "a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations."81 Here he describes the history of jurisprudence as the history of various societies' efforts... | |
| Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot - 2006 - 408 頁
...attempting to establish "a system of what might properly be called natural jurisprudence, or a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations" (341). After the publication of Research into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1991... | |
| Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 442 頁
...VII. iv. 6). (Similarly, the other useful part of moral philosophy, jurisprudence, is "a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations" [VII.iv.34, VII.iv.37].) Moreover, what one "ought to perform" throughout is "what every impartial... | |
| Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - 2007 - 340 頁
...writers) that Grotius was "the first who attempted to give the world any thing like a system of those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations"?46 The degree of systematicity in Grotius's account of the law of nations has been the subject... | |
| 1830 - 630 頁
...positive institution,' to which Adam Smith refers in a passage already quoted ; ' that theory of the principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations.' This is that ' right reason ' described by Cicero as ' itself a law ; congenial to the feelings of... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 頁
...Grotins seems to have been the first who attempted to give the world anything like a system of those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations ; and his Treatise of the Laws of Peace and War. with all its imperfections, is perhaps, at this day,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1791 - 610 頁
...duties ? Where ! but in thofe reprobated rights of nature which our Englilh philofopher has taught us, " ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations?" Where ! but in thofe moral obligations which reafon is able to deduce from the relations in which we... | |
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