Sublime

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Place one hundred people on an island from which there is no escape. Make one of them the absolute owner of the others – or the absolute owner of the soil. It will make no difference – either to the owner or to the others – which one you choose. Either way, one individual will be the absolute master of the other ninety-nine. Denying permission to t

Je poserai cette question : si par hasard il naissait aujourd'hui quelques gens tout neufs, ni accoutumés à la sujétion, ni affriandés à la liberté, ignorant jusqu'au nom de l'une et de l'autre, et qu'on leur proposât d'être sujets ou de vivre libres, quel serait leur choix ? Sans aucun doute, ils préféreraient de beaucoup obéir à la seule raison q

connecting the notion of rights with that of personal interest, which is the only immutable point in the human heart, what means will you have of governing the world except by fear? When I am told that, since the laws are weak and the populace is wild, since passions are excited and the authority of virtue is paralyzed, no measures must be taken to

I want to draw particular attention to the underlying notion of “self-interest.”56 It is in a real sense the key to the new philosophy. The term first appears in English right around Hobbes’ time, and it is, indeed, directly borrowed from interesse, the Roman law term for interest payments. When it was first introduced, most English authors seemed

Uma vez que homem nenhum possui uma autoridade natural sobre seu semelhante, e pois que a força não produz nenhum direito, restam pois as convenções como base de…

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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.

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