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The Concepts of Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

J. D. Mabbott
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A recent letter to the Press counselled caution on the return of the German colonies on the grounds that Germany was a notoriously ungrateful nation. A few years after we presented Heligoland to her, the Kruger telegram showed her ready to encourage our enemies. Why should we now make her further gifts which would merely render more effective similar treachery? Clearly behaviour like this by an individual would warrant such an attitude. If I give a man a present on Monday and on Tuesday he stabs me in the back,

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Philosophy , Volume 13 , Issue 51 , July 1938 , pp. 259 - 275
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1938

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References

1 Community, p. 22.

2 The Great Society, ch. i.

3 Some Problems in Ethics, ch. ix, especially pp. 118, 119.

4 Prolegomena to Ethics, §§ 259, 280.

5 Community, p. 22.

1 Op. cit., p. 69.

2 Op. cit., p. 40.

3 Op. cit., p. 90

4 Cf. Cole, An Introduction to Social Theory, ch. ii, where “Society” is spelled throughout with a capital and “community” with a small letter. Yet Cole intends both to be general terms, with many instances in each case.

1 Community, p. 22.

2 Loc. cit.

3 Op. cit., p. 39.

4 Op. cit., p. 37.

5 There are obviously equally difficult and interesting theological problems about the meanings of “The Church.”

6 Op. cit., p. 38.

1 Op. cit. (Third Edition), Appendix A, p. 422.

2 P. 25.

3 P. 29.

1 P. 29.

2 P. 30.

3 p. 25.

4 See his article “Loyalties” (Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1925–1926).

5 P. 28.

6 P. 26. My italics.

1 Prolegomena to Ethics, § 206.

2 Ibid., § 280.

3 H. D. Lewis, in Mind, N.S.vol. xlvi, pp.440 ff., exposes the same confusions in the assertion “rights are derived from society.” I am in complete agreement with his argument, and his treatment of “rights'” is, I think, parallel to my treatment above of duties, which was written before I saw his articles.

4 Op. cit., § 206.

1 Similarly, does a belief in the ideal of the unity of the Christian Church require unity of organization or not?

2 Prolegomena to Ethics, § 280.

1 Cf. Ward, S. B. in Mind, N.S. vol. xxxiii, on “The Crowd and the Herd.”Google Scholar