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... Matter , Form and Power of a Common- wealth , Ecclesiastical and Civil . Other works bearing on his ethical and political philosophy are : De Homine . Of Liberty and Necessity . Questions concerning Liberty , Necessity and Chance ...
... Matter , Form and Power of a Common- wealth , Ecclesiastical and Civil . Other works bearing on his ethical and political philosophy are : De Homine . Of Liberty and Necessity . Questions concerning Liberty , Necessity and Chance ...
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... matter and its laws . This explanation had been quite generally accepted by scien- tific men . It resulted in the mechanical conception of na- ture which not only dominated the physical science of the time but also greatly influenced ...
... matter and its laws . This explanation had been quite generally accepted by scien- tific men . It resulted in the mechanical conception of na- ture which not only dominated the physical science of the time but also greatly influenced ...
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... matters ( for I do only reason , I dispute not ) ; it so happens in the interim , that my country , some few years ... Matter , Form , and Power of a Commonwealth , Ecclesiastical and Civil . In it Hobbes represents the commonwealth to ...
... matters ( for I do only reason , I dispute not ) ; it so happens in the interim , that my country , some few years ... Matter , Form , and Power of a Commonwealth , Ecclesiastical and Civil . In it Hobbes represents the commonwealth to ...
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... matter thereof , and the artificer ; both which is man . Secondly , how , and by what covenants it is made ; what are the rights and just power or authority of a sovereign ; and what it is that preserveth or dissolveth it . Thirdly ...
... matter thereof , and the artificer ; both which is man . Secondly , how , and by what covenants it is made ; what are the rights and just power or authority of a sovereign ; and what it is that preserveth or dissolveth it . Thirdly ...
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... matters ( for I do only reason , I dis- pute not ) ; it so happens in the interim , that my country , some few years before the Civil Wars did rage , was boiling hot with questions concerning the rights of dominion , and the obedience ...
... matters ( for I do only reason , I dis- pute not ) ; it so happens in the interim , that my country , some few years before the Civil Wars did rage , was boiling hot with questions concerning the rights of dominion , and the obedience ...
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Page 140 - ... the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain but in an inclination thereto of many days together, so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.
Page 356 - Then said they unto Him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God ? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him Whom He hath sent.
Page 175 - For the laws of nature, as justice, equity, modesty, mercy, and, in sum, doing to others as we would be done to, of themselves, without the terror of some power to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our natural passions, that carry us to partiality, pride, revenge, and the like. And covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.
Page 140 - In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society...
Page 143 - 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 anything which, in his own judgment and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.
Page 141 - It may peradventure be thought there was never such a time nor condition of war as this ; and I believe it was never generally so, over all the world, but there are many places where they live so now. For the savage people in many places of America, except the government of small families, the concord whereof dependeth on natural lust, have no government at all, and live at this day in that brutish manner, as I said before.
Page 353 - The scribes and the Pharisees sit in 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 143 - 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 173 - A multitude of men, are made one person, when they are by one man, or one person, represented; so that it be done with the consent of every one of that multitude in particular. For it is the unity of the representer, not the unity of the represented, that maketh the person one.
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.