“Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.” IndividualPrinciplesRightsConditionsIndividual Power Author:William Ernest Hocking
“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.” ThinkingWayYearsHumansTwoThreeIndividualSocialHuman BeingsResultsThousandImpulseNativeThriveThousand YearsVentureEvident Author:William Ernest Hocking
“It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.” ShouldMaySaidIndividualNaturalBecomingCapableAbsolutes Author:William Ernest Hocking
“Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.” SaidMatterIndividualInterestCommunityCommonConditionsDevelopmentPureSupremePursueGoodsCommon GoodIndividual Power Author:William Ernest Hocking
