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... understanding of which a knowledge of the first part is really not necessary . It is in the treatment of the origin and regulation of the State that his ethical theory is developed , and , as has just been stated , the State has its ...
... understanding of which a knowledge of the first part is really not necessary . It is in the treatment of the origin and regulation of the State that his ethical theory is developed , and , as has just been stated , the State has its ...
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... understand this second law , we must find out what Hobbes means by laying down a right to all things . Every man in a state of nature having a right to all things , A , in laying down this right to B , or to B , C , D , and others ...
... understand this second law , we must find out what Hobbes means by laying down a right to all things . Every man in a state of nature having a right to all things , A , in laying down this right to B , or to B , C , D , and others ...
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... understand how he was led to form a conception of human nature so utterly selfish and unsocial . 1 Quoted from Morris's British Thought and Thinkers , chap . VI . It would be extravagant , of course , to suppose 36 INTRODUCTION .
... understand how he was led to form a conception of human nature so utterly selfish and unsocial . 1 Quoted from Morris's British Thought and Thinkers , chap . VI . It would be extravagant , of course , to suppose 36 INTRODUCTION .
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... understand how Hobbes was led to form what many of his critics regarded as extreme and danger- ous views of the nature of sovereignty . What , human nature being the Ishmaelitish thing the age is constantly demonstrating it to be , is ...
... understand how Hobbes was led to form what many of his critics regarded as extreme and danger- ous views of the nature of sovereignty . What , human nature being the Ishmaelitish thing the age is constantly demonstrating it to be , is ...
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... understand the practical philosophy of Hobbes is its rela- tion to preceding and contemporary thought . Concerning the former , there is comparatively little to be said . Hobbes was not an erudite man . He was wont to say that had he ...
... understand the practical philosophy of Hobbes is its rela- tion to preceding and contemporary thought . Concerning the former , there is comparatively little to be said . Hobbes was not an erudite man . He was wont to say that had he ...
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Page 355 - Moses' seat : all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do ; but do not ye after their works : for they say, and do not.
Page 145 - The RIGHT OF NATURE, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own judgment, and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto...
Page 6 - STATE, in Latin CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul...
Page 15 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Page 30 - The desires and other passions of man are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them; which, till laws be made, they cannot know: nor can any law be made till they have agreed upon the person that shall make it.
Page 31 - A law of nature, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
Page 31 - Justice, and injustice are none of the faculties neither of the body, nor mind. If they were, they might be in a man that were alone in the world, as well as his senses, and passions. They are qualities, that relate to men in society, not in solitude.
Page 13 - Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity. But when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the same, the compassion is greater, because then there appeareth more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the evil that happeneth to an innocent man may happen to every man.
Page 340 - It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.
Page 177 - THE final cause, end, or design of men, who naturally love liberty, and dominion over others, in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, in which we see them live in commonwealths, is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby...