Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Contents
- BOOK II.
- CHAP. 9 Concerning Contracts or Covenants
- CHAP. 10 The Obligations in the Use of Speech
- CHAP. 11 Concerning Oaths and Vows
- CHAP. 12 The Values of Goods in Commerce, and the Nature of Coin
- CHAP. 13 The principal Contracts in a Social Life
- CHAP. 14 Personal Rights arising from some lawful Action of the Person obliged, or of him who has the Right
- CHAP. 15 The Rights arising from Injuries and Damages, done by others: and the Abolition of Rights
- CHAP. 16 Concerning the general Rights of Human Society, or Mankind as a System
- CHAP. 17 The extraordinary Rights arising from some Singular Necessity
- CHAP. 18 How Controversies Should be decided in Natural Liberty
- BOOK III.
CHAP. 16 - Concerning the general Rights of Human Society, or Mankind as a System
from BOOK II.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2015
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Contents
- BOOK II.
- CHAP. 9 Concerning Contracts or Covenants
- CHAP. 10 The Obligations in the Use of Speech
- CHAP. 11 Concerning Oaths and Vows
- CHAP. 12 The Values of Goods in Commerce, and the Nature of Coin
- CHAP. 13 The principal Contracts in a Social Life
- CHAP. 14 Personal Rights arising from some lawful Action of the Person obliged, or of him who has the Right
- CHAP. 15 The Rights arising from Injuries and Damages, done by others: and the Abolition of Rights
- CHAP. 16 Concerning the general Rights of Human Society, or Mankind as a System
- CHAP. 17 The extraordinary Rights arising from some Singular Necessity
- CHAP. 18 How Controversies Should be decided in Natural Liberty
- BOOK III.
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- A System of Moral PhilosophyIn Three Books, pp. 104 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015First published in: 1755