 | 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... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1899 - 276 pages
...in a peculiar relation to it. Hobbcs 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 Hobbcs, " led men... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...For 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...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... | |
 | William Galbraith Miller - Jurisprudence - 1903 - 504 pages
...answers to our questions elsewhere. In his chapter " Of the Passions " he distinguishes good and evil — "there being nothing simply and absolutely .so, nor...good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the olrjects themselves ; but from the person of the man, where there is no commonwealth ; or in a commonwealth,... | |
 | William Archibald Dunning - Political science - 1905 - 480 pages
...method at its best. 3 " These words [good and bad] are ever used with relation to the person that useth them ; there being nothing simply and absolutely so,...taken from the nature of the objects themselves." — Ibid., chap. vi (Morley's ed., p. 32). HOBBES ON HAPPINESS 267 For there is no such thing in life... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 484 pages
...For 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...themselves ; but from the person of the man, where there 5s no commonwealth ; or, in a commonwealth, from the person that representeth it : or from an arbitrator... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...For 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;...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... | |
 | Alfred Edward Taylor - 1908 - 144 pages
...anarchy is to be avoided. 'These words ... are ever 63 used with relation to the person that useth them ; there being nothing simply and absolutely so,...objects themselves, but from the person of the man (when there is no commonwealth), or (in a commonwealth) from the person that representeth it, or from... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - Ethics - 1909 - 832 pages
...For 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...Commonwealth ; or, in a Commonwealth, from the person that represent eth it ; or from an arbitrator or judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent set up, and... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 470 pages
...For 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;...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,... 
