 | Peter Macinnis - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...African Company, another slaving concern, even though he wrote: 'Slavery is so vile and miserable a state of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly possible that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it.' In Denmark,... | |
 | Paul Youngquist - 2003 - 316 Seiten
...political theory is the lesson of the famous first sentence of Locke's Two Treatises on Government: "Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man,...Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for it" (159). The estate of Man may possess no slaves, but plenty of English estates in America and the West... | |
 | John Marriott - 2003 - 264 Seiten
...slavery as a natural state. Thus when John Locke in the first Treatise of Government declared that 'Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man,...Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for 't', the estate of man he had in mind was that found in a free and rational society governed by social... | |
 | John Locke - 2003 - 378 Seiten
...188 XIX. Of the dissolution of government 193 Of Government. BOOK I: FIRST TREATISE CHAPTER I. § 1 . Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man,...the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it. And truly... | |
 | Heike Raphael-Hernandez - 2004 - 340 Seiten
...Europe 14 Never Shall We Be Slaves Locke's Treatises, Slavery, and Early European Modernity SABINEBROECK Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of Man,...Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for it. — John Locke1 To see the histories of slavery and colonialism as a kind of "collective unconscious"... | |
 | Richard J. Bernstein - 2004 - 404 Seiten
...religion whatsoever."6 Thus, the same Locke who declared in the opening line of his First Treatise that "Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man,...Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it,"7 did in fact support it for the Africans being forcibly shipped to America to serve English gentlemen.... | |
 | John A. Richardson - 2004 - 210 Seiten
...freedom, Locke's attitudes are more complicated than that. The first Treatise of Government begins: Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man,...an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.19 Slavery is morally 'vile', by implication a matter of choice, as well as unfortunately 'miserable',... | |
 | Heike Raphael-Hernandez - 2004 - 340 Seiten
...Treatises, Slavery, and Early European Modernity SABINEBROECK Slavery is so vile and miserable an esiate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper...Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for it. —Iobn Locke ' To see the histories of slavery and colonialism as a kind of "collective unconscious"... | |
 | Patriot Hall - 2004 - 346 Seiten
...up that would flatter Princes with an opinion that they have a divine right to absolute power"; yet "slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man,...generous temper and courage of our nation, that 'tis hard to be conceived that an englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it."Especially at... | |
 | Marie-Jo Thiel - 2004 - 500 Seiten
...Anfangssätzen in Rousseaus Contrat Social beginnt der erste Traktat mit einem massiven Bekenntnis: "Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man,...the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that lis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman should plead for't 3I ." Was... | |
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it. 
