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" ... 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,... "
Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and ... - Page 297
by Henry Hallam - 1839
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The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the ..., Volume 3

Ralph Cudworth - Atheism - 1845 - 720 pages
...them ; in which sense it is truly affirmed by the author of the Leviathan, page 24, " That there is no common rule of good and evil to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves,'' that is, either considered absolutely in themselves, or relatively to external sense only, but according...
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The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the ..., Volume 3

Ralph Cudworth - Atheism - 1845 - 716 pages
...them ; in which sense it is truly affirmed by the author of the Leviathan, page 24, " That there is no common rule of good and evil to be taken from the nature of the object themselves," that is, cither considered absolutely in themselves, or relatively to external...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Volumes 8-10

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 pages
...; there being nothing simply or absolutely so, nor any common rule of good or evil to be taken from the objects themselves, but from the person of the...commonwealth, or in a commonwealth from the person that representeth it." The sense of Appetite, or Aversion to or from an object, Hobbes calls Delight or...
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Notes on mental & moral philosophy

H. Coleman - Ethics - 1865 - 234 pages
...person that useth them, there being nothing simply or absolutely so, nor any common rule of good or evil to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves,...commonwealth, or in a commonwealth from the person that representeth it, or person, or arbitrator, or judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent set up and...
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A Manual of Moral Philosophy: With Quotations and References for the Use of ...

William Fleming - Ethics - 1867 - 450 pages
...Contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them : there being nothing simply nor absolutely so ; nor any common rule of Good and Evil...commonwealth), or in a commonwealth, from the person that representeth it; or person, or arbitrator, or judge, whom men, disagreeing, shall by consent set up...
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The Student's Manual of Moral Philosophy

William Fleming - 1870 - 458 pages
...Contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them : there being nothing simply nor absolutely so ; nor any common rule of Good and Evil...commonwealth), or in a commonwealth, from the person that representeth it; or person, or arbitrator, or judge, whom men, disagreeing, shall by consent set up...
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Handbook of Moral Philosophy

Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1872 - 356 pages
...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...commonwealth ; or, in a commonwealth, from the person of him that representeth it, or from an arbitrator or judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent...
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Handbook of Moral Philosophy

Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1874 - 328 pages
...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...commonwealth ; or, in a commonwealth, from the person of him that representeth it, or from an arbitrator or judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent...
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The Life of John Locke, Volume 2

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 596 pages
...words of good and evil and contemptible are ever used with relation to the person that useth them, there being nothing simply and absolutely so, nor...objects themselves, but from the person of the man." (' Leviathan,' part i., ch. vi.) 1 Locke's own temperament shows that he was here using the term love...
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Literary Studies: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and ...

Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1879 - 488 pages
...them, in which sense it is truly affirmed by the author of the " Leviathan" (p. 24), " That there is no common rule of good and evil to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves," that is, either considered absolutely in themselves, or relatively to external sense only, but according...
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