Thomas HobbesA. Constable & Company, Limited, 1908 - 127 páginas |
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... facts of the universe , and more particularly those of the inner life of emotion and will , as consequences of the primary laws of motion . Hence , in the preface to the De Corpore , after mentioning as the founders of true physical ...
... facts of the universe , and more particularly those of the inner life of emotion and will , as consequences of the primary laws of motion . Hence , in the preface to the De Corpore , after mentioning as the founders of true physical ...
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... fact the insolubility of the more famous of the two , that of the quadrature , has only been finally demonstrated in our own time by Lindemann , though a sounder mathematical instinct would , no doubt , have suggested to Hobbes that it ...
... fact the insolubility of the more famous of the two , that of the quadrature , has only been finally demonstrated in our own time by Lindemann , though a sounder mathematical instinct would , no doubt , have suggested to Hobbes that it ...
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... fact , of most of the eminent thinkers of an exceedingly worldly and unspiritual age . It is not often that we find , as we do in Plato , the combination in one person of intense spiritual earnestness with the faculty of cool and keen ...
... fact , of most of the eminent thinkers of an exceedingly worldly and unspiritual age . It is not often that we find , as we do in Plato , the combination in one person of intense spiritual earnestness with the faculty of cool and keen ...
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... fact . But it is equally true that Hobbes ends an epoch . He is the last English philosophical writer , with the single ex- ception of Spencer , to understand the word ' philosophy ' in the wide sense put upon it in the Middle Ages , as ...
... fact . But it is equally true that Hobbes ends an epoch . He is the last English philosophical writer , with the single ex- ception of Spencer , to understand the word ' philosophy ' in the wide sense put upon it in the Middle Ages , as ...
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... fact , which is a thing past and irrecoverable , science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another ' ( Leviathan , c . v . ) . The peculiarity of philosophy or science is that its results are at once ...
... fact , which is a thing past and irrecoverable , science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another ' ( Leviathan , c . v . ) . The peculiarity of philosophy or science is that its results are at once ...
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A. E. TAYLOR absolute according to Hobbes action agreement analysis appetite authorised authority aversion axioms called causes chapter of Leviathan chess problem Church Cive civil sovereign civilisation claim commands common common peace commonwealth conception Concerning Body condition consequences covenant Decameron declared deduction defence definition Descartes desire doctrine ecclesiastical effect endeavour England English Erastianism ethical existence fact famous follows fundamental Galileo geometry given Hence Herbert Spencer Hobbes's human nature imagination injustice knowledge Latin laws of nature legal fiction Leibniz logical Long Parliament Magdalen Hall mathematical mechanical merely mind modern monarch motion obedience object once original Parliament peace perception person phantasm philo philosophy physical political postulate premisses principles proposition psychological reason recognise refuse representative ruler Scholasticism sensation sense sensible qualities simply Sir Leslie Stephen social thing THOMAS HOBBES thought tion true truth universal volition voluntary Wallis whole words
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Página 71 - To this war of every man against every man this also is consequent, that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice.
Página 69 - So that in the first place I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power; but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
Página 81 - 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.
Página 82 - And consequently it is a precept, or general rule of reason, " that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war.
Página 64 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable. For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves...
Página 60 - When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently. But as we have no imagination, whereof we have not formerly had sense, in whole or in parts; so we have no transition from one imagination to another, whereof we never had the like before in our senses.
Página 70 - For, as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself.
Página 95 - 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, lhat maketh the person "one.
Página 122 - Kingdom of fairies"; that is, to the old wives' fables in England concerning "ghosts " and "spirits", and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the "ghost" of the deceased " Roman Empire", sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Página 90 - These dictates of reason men used to call by the name of laws, but improperly; for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others.