Our Form of Government and the Problems of the Future (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Kroeger, A. E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333289634 ISBN 13 : 9781333289638

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

This book provides a unique perspective on the evolution of law and government from its philosophical foundations to the establishment of The United States as an independent state. The author's deep understanding of political thought allows him to identify critical insights that link abstract concepts of rights, freedom, and legality to applied questions of how a society can exist where each individual is guaranteed their rights without oppression. The author's ideas are still highly relevant today and continue to shape our current understanding of democratic principles. This book is essential reading for students of law and government, as well as anyone interested in understanding the interplay between the individual and the state.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Our Form of Government dent: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that amongst these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The word amongst might have been left out, for it is self-evident that only these three original or natural rights are possible: a right to life, because a rational being could not become conscious of causality upon the sensuous world unless it posited itself as existing beyond the act of such causality in order to perceive its realization; a right to freedom, because the conception of a rational being involves the conception of self-determination; and a right to the pursuit of happiness which is used in the Declaration of Independence as equivalent to a right of property because every free being, in order to have causality upon the sensuous world, must make a part of that world subject to its purposes, or must make it its property. But if each rational being has these rights by virtue of its rationality, and if each must comprehend the other as entitled to them in order to become itself a rational being, how is rationality itself possible? Evidently there must be a conception, by virtue of which each rational being limits its own original rights by the conception of those of others. But how can such a conception be realized? Granted, that each individual recognizes this conception as the only possible condition of rationality, how shall the one be sure that the other will always recognize it thus in his acts, or, in other words, will always treat him as a rational being? Clearly the mere conception must becpme an external law, an agreement of each with all others to respect their self-determination. Without such an agreement they cannot securely live together, and since they must live together; in order to be free beings, each one has the right to compel each

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333289634
• ISBN 13: 9781333289638
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 37
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