 | Thomas Duddy - History - 2002 - 392 pages
...that useth them: There being nothing simple and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evill, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves, but from the nature of the Person' (1651: 25). Hobbes rejects the notion of an ultimate or 'greatest good' for human... | |
 | Michael E. Berumen - Business & Economics - 2003 - 494 pages
...and government. For Hobbes, moral words "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." He also said that "men, have no other rule of good and evil manners, but the correction they receive... | |
 | Samuel Gregg - Philosophy - 2003 - 148 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." This combination of (1) a concern for utility (which Bentham defined as the degree of an action's conduciveness... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - History - 2003 - 696 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,"25 that is, either considered absolutely in themselves or relatively to external sense... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
...words ot 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 Ev1ll, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves." There was an admirable e-list discussion... | |
 | Line Cottegnies, Tony Gheeraert, Gisèle Venet - Aesthetics, European - 2003 - 272 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 Person of the man (where there is no common-wealth) or, (in a Commonwealth)... | |
 | Ian Tregenza - History - 2003 - 254 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... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 466 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 that represented it ; or from an arbitrator or judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent set up, and... | |
 | Sean Coyle, Karen Morrow - Law - 2004 - 245 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...objects themselves; but from the Person of the man [in the state of nature] . . .' Leviathan 1.6.120. (The core of Hobbes's psychological theory is located... | |
 | F. Roger Devlin - Philosophy - 2004 - 184 pages
...evil.... 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...be taken from the nature of the objects themselves (L, vi). In other words, the passions are a more fundamental anthropological fact than their objects.... | |
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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,... 
