Politics: A Lecture Delivered at Columbia University in the Series on Science, Philosophy and Art, February 12, 1908Columbia University Press, 1908 - 35 頁 |
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action Adjunct Professor ANTHROPOLOGY ASTRONOMY BOTANY Cassius Jackson Keyser causation in politics COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS Constitution delivered at Columbia democratic discipline divine doctrine economic Ernest Fox Nichols example extra-legal fact feudal forms of government forms of property Franklin Henry Giddings Franz Boas freedom of contract fundamental GEOLOGY Germany Greek Archae Harold Jacoby human Indo-Iranian Lan institutions James Furman Kemp James Harvey Robinson ject JURISPRUDENCE juristic tests king labor legislation laissez faire Latin Language literature ment Munroe Smith nation natural rights Nicholas Murray Butler ology and Art operations organization origin Philosophy and Art PHYSIOLOGY poli political authority political philosophy politician popular practical precise private property problems Professor of Philosophy Professor of Political Professor of Zoology revolution Rutherfurd Professor scholars scientific social Sociology sovereign student of politics tendency theologian theory tion treatises University Press separately various professors chosen war band working-class workingmen
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第 9 頁 - To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature ; without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
第 27 頁 - Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy; assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old.
第 6 頁 - ... a view of a certain aspect of human action. The human being is not essentially different when he is depositing his ballot from what he is in the counting house or at the work bench. In the place of a 'natural...
第 10 頁 - The master who taught us that ' the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract,' was quick to add that feudal society was governed by the law of contract 3.
第 12 頁 - ... amid the multitudinous experiences of the market place where society daily meets the pressing needs of life. It is not only in possessing sound historical and evolutionary notions that the student of politics lays claim to being more scientific than his predecessors in the eighteenth century. He endeavors more and more to subject his own thinking to the very disciplines of history and evolution. He is convinced of what Professor Dunning has so amply and admirably demonstrated, that political...
第 10 頁 - go with their land ' to any lord whom they pleased ; they could make the relation between king and subject look like the outcome of agreement; the law of contract threatened to swallow up all public law. Those were the golden days of ' free,' if ' formal,
第 12 頁 - Abd-el-Lateef, a Wahhabee, was preaching one day to the people of Riad, he recounted the tradition according to which Mahomet declared that his followers should divide into seventy-three sects, and that seventy-two were destined to hell-fire, and one only to Paradise.
第 32 頁 - ... a treatise on causation in politics would be the most welcome contribution which a scholar of scientific training and temper could make. After all I have said about the fields of political research and the intensely human and practical nature of the questions which students of politics have to consider, it may seem a work of supererogation to refer to the actual service of the science of the nation. Nevertheless, I believe a word of defence should be spoken, for in this world of ours we are turning...
第 14 頁 - ... political and social and economic conditions, and my conception of History makes it the necessary complement to Biology and Anthropology. . . . As to Ethics, I must continue to differ wholly from Lord Acton, my distinguished Cambridge colleague, and profess that it is not the Historian's duty to try and estimate the exact degree of damnation that should be meted out...
第 20 頁 - It would seem," wrote Beard, that the real state is not the juristic state, but is that group of persons able to work together effectively for the accomplishment of their joint aims, and overcome all opposition on the particular point at issue at a particular period of time . . . Changes in the form of the state have been caused primarily by the demand of groups for power, and in general these groups...