 | Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...will " ; or any " free," but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning, that is to say, absurd. I have said before, in the second chapter, that a man did excel all other animals in this faculty,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 632 pages
...free will, or any_/r« but free from being hindered by opposition ; I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning, that is to say, absurd.' — Chap. iv. v., pp. 15, 18, &c. The account of the passions and affections which follows next in... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...free will; or any free, but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning, that is to say, absurd. I have said before, in the second chapter, that a man did excel all other animals in this faculty,... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 470 pages
...free will,' or any ' free' but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning, that is to say absurd. I have said before, in the second chapter, that a man did excel all other animals in this faculty that... | |
 | Philosophy - 1910 - 470 pages
...free will,' or any ' free ' but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning, that is to say absurd. I have said before, in the second chapter, that a man did excel all other animals in this faculty that... | |
 | René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1910 - 436 pages
...free will,' or any 'free' but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning, that is to say absurd. I have said before, in the second chapter, that a man did excel all other animals in this faculty that... | |
 | Mortimer Jerome Adler - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 208 pages
...substances, or about & free subject, a free will..., I should not say that he were in error," Hobbes writes, "but that his words were without meaning; that is to say, absurd." Statements about things that never have been "nor can be incident to sense," are, according to Hobbes,... | |
 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...free will; or any free, but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an whirlwind, or jumbled in to a confused heap by an earthquake. 212. Bes I have said before, (in the second chapter,) that a man did excel all other animals in this faculty,... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 566 pages
...brusquely dismisses the believer in "free will" in Leviathan, saying, "I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning, that is to say, absurd." For only substances can be free, all substances are bodies, and will is not a body. He defines natural... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 2008 - 516 pages
...free will; or any free, but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning, that is to say, absurd. I have said before in the second chapter, that a man did excel all other animals in this faculty, that... | |
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And therefore if a man should talk to me of a round quadrangle, or accidents of bread in cheese, or immaterial substances, or of a free subject, a free will, or any free but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an error... 
