 | Martin van Gelderen, Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | Jerry Evensky - 2005 - 364 pages
...aim at establishing 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. But though the reasonings of lawyers did produce something of this kind... it was very late in the... | |
 | Jennifer Pitts - 2009 - 400 pages
...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... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 442 pages
...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... | |
 | Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot - 2006 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - 2007 - 340 pages
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1830 - 630 pages
...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1791 - 610 pages
...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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... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations. 
