Excerpt from The Philosophy of Right, Vol. 2 of 2: With Special Reference to the Principles and Development of Law Hitherto we have had under view the objects of ethics as a whole, considered from the juridical side. This ethical whole is realised by man individually and in society. Man is naturally sociable; and this truth, seen by Aristotle and by the great philosophers of antiquity, has been vainly contested by Hobbes, Rousseau, and their followers. The isolated individual is an abstraction; his tory presents only ...
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Excerpt from The Philosophy of Right, Vol. 2 of 2: With Special Reference to the Principles and Development of Law Hitherto we have had under view the objects of ethics as a whole, considered from the juridical side. This ethical whole is realised by man individually and in society. Man is naturally sociable; and this truth, seen by Aristotle and by the great philosophers of antiquity, has been vainly contested by Hobbes, Rousseau, and their followers. The isolated individual is an abstraction; his tory presents only families, tribes, races, peoples, or states. Hence we shall consider the individual not as a whole in himself, but as in relation with the whole. Leibniz was the first to put the principle of continuity into its true light, but Aristotle had already foreshadowed it in his treatise on the soul (de Animal). The Stagirite seeks the soul not only in man and the animals, but in the entire world wherever life is manifested, that is to say, in the succession and continuous gradation of the organic forces. He shows it to us on the lowest stage in the plants with a single faculty, that of nutrition; then in the animal, which acts with sensation and locomotion; and lastly in man, in whom it rises to thought and to reason. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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