 | A. James Reichley - Philosophy - 2002 - 312 pages
...The real source of moral authority for the political edifice he creates is nothing but self-interest, "there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor...of the objects themselves; but from the person of man." From this uncompromising moral relativism justifying radical individualism, Hobbes derives a... | |
 | Peter Cane, John Gardner - Law - 2001 - 262 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 . . ." (Hobbes, 1651, part 1, ch. 6: 120)... | |
 | David Dyzenhaus, Arthur Ripstein - Philosophy - 2001 - 1086 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; but from the Person of the man (where... | |
 | Cynthia Halpern - Political Science - 2002 - 338 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...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... | |
 | Franklin I. Gamwell - Religion - 2001 - 380 pages
...the point: "Good, evil, and contemptible are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor...be taken from the nature of the objects themselves" (1962: 48-49). Still, it is probably wrong to say that moral nonteleology developed in a manner that... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - History - 2002 - 664 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...and evil to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves,1 but from the person of the man (where there is no commonwealth) or (in a commonwealth)... | |
 | Greg Dewar - Religion - 2002 - 181 pages
...used with relation to the person that useth them: There being nothing simply and absolutely so; not any common Rule of Good and Evil to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves. Hobbes, Leviathan, p.24 Hobbes' theory poses a problem - a conflict between duty and desire. In most... | |
 | Tibor R. Machan, James Chesher - Business & Economics - 2002 - 280 pages
.... . For these words of good and evil ... 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."9 Yet, the previous quote paradoxically implies that if someone were to desire something obviously... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - History - 2002 - 430 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'.279 Hobbes also seeks to explain why... | |
 | Richard E. Flathman - Philosophy - 2002 - 220 pages
...that "these words of Good, Evill [etc.] are never 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." But rather than taking this view as... | |
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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,... 
