 | Beate Jahn - Political Science - 2006 - 290 pages
...these words of good, evil, and contemptibel 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 . . .'7 In De Cive, he phrases the issue more simply still, holding that: 'Wherever good and evil are... | |
 | Wayne Morrison - Civilization - 2006 - 428 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...be taken from the nature of the objects themselves' (Hobbes: 1991: 39). 39 'In the midst of a large populated area which by and large is free of physical... | |
 | Jeff Noonan - Political Science - 2006 - 288 pages
...words of good, evil, and contemptible are ever used in the 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."2 The implications of this redefinition of the Good as desire satisfaction are contradictory.... | |
 | John Farrell - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 372 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. (L, 120) If Hobbes is correct, the terms... | |
 | Robert E. Babe, Robert Babe - Nature - 2006 - 249 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... | |
 | Ioannis D. Evrigenis - Political Science - 2007 - 23 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 make... | |
 | David Dyzenhaus, Sophia Reibetanz Moreau, Arthur Ripstein - Law - 2007 - 1095 pages
...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 there is no Common- wealth;) or, (in a Common-wealth,) from the Person that representeth it; or from an Arbitrator... | |
 | Ben Saunders - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 274 pages
...Aversion, Evill. . . . For these words . . . 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. — THOMAS HOBBES, LEVIATHAN At this... | |
 | Philip Pettit - Philosophy - 2009 - 192 pages
...evil" (EL 7.3). Words like good and bad "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 6.7). They are used by me to pick out those things I find pleasing or displeasing, and by you to... | |
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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,... 
