 | David Williams - 1999 - 534 Seiten
...practical defect. By having a right to everything, they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among those wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their... | |
 | Dan E. Beauchamp, Bonnie Steinbock - 1999 - 399 Seiten
...describing the fundamental right that is at stake here when he wrote: 'Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.' It only has to be said that the wisdom in question is the wisdom not of a ruling class, as Burke seems... | |
 | Paul Roazen - 372 Seiten
...slavery of our passions. "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. . . . Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. ... In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 Seiten
..."is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants" and the foremost right men possess is that "these wants should be provided for by this wisdom....civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions."29 It was just that restraint that was so evidently lacking in France. Burke was especially... | |
 | Philippe de Schoutheete - 2000 - 140 Seiten
...they have placed it under an obligation to achieve a certain result. "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom" (Burke 1790). Efficiency is therefore one of the keys to the system. Any proposal in the European sphere... | |
 | 2001 - 244 Seiten
...practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, our of civil sociery, of a sufficient restraint upon theit passions. Sociery requites not only that... | |
 | Benjamin W. Redekop, Calvin Redekop - 2001 - 276 Seiten
...they have a right to everything. Government is rather to provide for human wants and restrain human passions. "Society requires not only that the passions...should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body . . . the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions... | |
 | David H. Stam - 2001 - 564 Seiten
...man, or upon one assembly of men. — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. — Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Archival Origins Governments and organized... | |
 | Martin Jay - 2003 - 244 Seiten
...is not made in virtue of natural rights" with the counterclaim that "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint on their passions. ... In this sense the restraints on men, as well as on their liberties, are to be... | |
 | Martin Jay - 2003 - 244 Seiten
...is not made in virtue of natural rights" with the counterclaim that "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufftcient restraint on their passions. ... In this sense the restraints on men, as well as on their... | |
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 
