 | Edgar Arthur Singer - 1923 - 346 páginas
...fruit thereof is uncertain, ... no arts, no letters, no society, and, what is worst of all, continued fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. . . . " And consequently, it is a precept, or general rule of reason, that every man ought to endeavor... | |
 | Barry Cooper - 2005 - 268 páginas
...was needed. In any event, in such a condition, Hobbes said in his most oft-quoted phrase, there is "continual fear and danger of violent death; and the...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." It is a state of war without law and without justice, rilled only with force and fraud, the "two cardinal... | |
 | Aloysius Martinich - 2005 - 292 páginas
...face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. (L13.9) What Hobbes is describing is the condition of war, which he defines as follows: WAR consisteth... | |
 | John Shand - 2005 - 250 páginas
...imported by sea ... no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. (L: 102; EW III: 113) Hobbes is aware that many people believe that there was never such a time as... | |
 | Eugene Richard Atleo - 2004 - 172 páginas
...description of Aboriginal life reads: "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" (Hobbes 1651, 96). Locke and Rousseau, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries respectively,... | |
 | William J. Talbott - 2005 - 232 páginas
...industry, no agriculture, no justice, "no arts; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" ([1651], 107). Hobbes believed that only an absolute ruler would be able to prevent this disaster,... | |
 | Albert Weale - 2005 - 176 páginas
...protection at all from the force of others, survival itself is at stake, so that in Hobbes's words, there is 'continual fear, and danger of violent death; and...of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'. The conventional lesson to draw from the absence of security in a state of nature is the need to form... | |
 | Nigel Jonathan Spivey - 2005 - 300 páginas
...condition' of humans living in a pre-civilized 'state of nature'. It was a situation, he declared, of 'continual fear, and danger of violent death; and...of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'. At the time when the paintings at Altamira were found, most people would have imagined the typical... | |
 | Timothy Shanahan - 2005 - 316 páginas
...imported by sea ... no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."7 Clearly enough, condition ( l ) applies a fortiori to the situation to which Israel is subject... | |
 | Clifford Conner - 2005 - 572 páginas
...Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual! feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. —THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan (1651) THOMAS HOBBES, WRITING in the seventeenth century, had a low opinion... | |
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... 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,... 
