This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII SOCIAL MECHANICS, OR THE LEVERS OF SOCIAL MOTION 2. EGOISTIC--COERCION i 1. FORM OF COERCION IN ANIMALS. -- 1 2. MAN -- INTELLIGENCE ADDED TO FORCE (SLAVERY, PEACE, LAW); -- THE POSTULATE OF FORCE IN THE VARIOUS PURPOSES OF THE INDIVIDUAL. -- (13. PERSON, PROPERTY; 5 4FAMILY; 16. CONTRACT ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII SOCIAL MECHANICS, OR THE LEVERS OF SOCIAL MOTION 2. EGOISTIC--COERCION i 1. FORM OF COERCION IN ANIMALS. -- 1 2. MAN -- INTELLIGENCE ADDED TO FORCE (SLAVERY, PEACE, LAW); -- THE POSTULATE OF FORCE IN THE VARIOUS PURPOSES OF THE INDIVIDUAL. -- (13. PERSON, PROPERTY; 5 4FAMILY; 16. CONTRACT; BINDING FORCE OF CONTRACTS. THEIR FORM IN ROMAN LAW). -- SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF FORCE (J6. PARTNERSHIP; 87. SOCIETY; {8. STATE) -- i 9. THE FORCE OF THE STATE. -- 110. LAW. -- THE ELEMENTS OF THE CONCEPT OF LAW: COMPULSION. -- 111. NORM, CONTENT. (J 12. THE CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL LIFE). -- 5 J 13, 14. POSITION OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN LAW. -- 1 15. SOLIDARITY OF HIS INTERESTS WITH THOSE OF THE STATE. Tjhe second lever of social order is Coercion. The social organization of reward becomes trade; coercion organized makes the State and Law. It is in the latter forms of organization that commerce attains its final fulfillment; reward must have law behind it. By coercion in the wider sense we understand the realization of a purpose by means of mastering another's will; the concept of coercion presupposes in the agent as well as in the passive object of coercion a voluntary subject, a living being. Such mastery of another's will is possible in a two-fold manner (pp. 11,12,34): Mechanically (mechanical, physical coercion, "vis absoluta"), when the resistance which the foreign will opposes to our purposes is broken by summoning physical power superior to its own. This is a purely external process of the same kind exactly as when a man removes a lifeless object which is in his way. Language denotes the process in both cases as force, but for the application of force to a living being it alsc uses the expression coercion, evidently in view of the fact that...
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