 | Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1883 - 380 pages
...to the person that useth them ; there being nothing simply and absolutely so ; nor any common rale of good and evil to be taken from the nature of the...commonwealth ; or, in a commonwealth, from the person of him that represented! it, or from an arbitrator or judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent... | |
 | 1887 - 732 pages
...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...taken from the nature of the objects themselves." The solution of the moral problem is so astounding in its simplicity that it almost takes away one's... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...words of good, evil, and contem:,iible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them : there being nothing simply and absolutely so ; nor...common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the naiure of the objects themselves ; but from the person of the man, where there is no commonwealth ;... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 482 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... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 470 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, —... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...which sense it is truly affirmed by the author of the ' Leviathan ' (page 2-1*) 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, —... | |
 | Georg Graf von Hertling - Cambridge Platonists - 1892 - 344 pages
...words of Good, Evill, 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 Evill, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves. 1 Martineau aa 0. S. 421. 6 Tulloch S.... | |
 | Richard William Church - Philosophy - 1895 - 714 pages
...stand in a peculiar relation to it. Hobbes resolved all ideas into sensations; he denied that there was 'any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.' He did not, however, deny the existence of a God. 'Curiosity about causes,' says Hobbes, 'led men to... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - Ethics - 1897 - 456 pages
...Thing in them; in which Sense it is truly affirmed by the Author of the Leviathan. 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... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them : there being nothing__s_irnply . and absolutely so ; nor any common rule of good and...commonwealth ; or, in a commonwealth, from the person that representeth it ; or from an arbitrator or judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent set up, and... | |
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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,... 
