.^ His father, vicar of Charlton and Westport, an illiterate and choleric man, quarrelled, it is said, with a brother clergyman at the church door , and was forced to decamp, leaving his three children to the care of an elder brother Francis , a flourishing glover at Malmesbury.
^ De corpore References: nnaa Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
^ De cive References: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
Thomas Hobbes was put to school at Westport church
at the age of four, passed to the Malmesbury school at eight, and
was taught again in Westport later at a private school kept by a
young man named Robert Latimer, fresh from
Oxford and " a good Grecian." He had begun
Latin and Greek early, and under
Latimer made such progress as to be able to translate the
Medea of
Euripides into Latin
iambic verse before he was fourteen.
.^ About the age of fifteen he was sent to Oxford and entered at Magdalen Hall.
^ Here T.H. so well profited in his learning, that at fourteen years of age, he went away a good school-scholar to Magdalen Hall in Oxford.- A Brief Life of Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC oregonstate.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ By that point the future philosopher Hobbes had himself left Malmesbury (in 1602 or 1603), in order to study at Magdalen Hall, Oxford.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ During his residence, the first principal of Magdalen Hall, John Hussee, was succeeded by John Wilkinson , who ruled in the interest of the Calvinistic party in the university.
^ Because the state of nature is so appalling, it is in everyone's interest to accept the rule of anyone who can impose order.- Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer and John Locke: 17th Century Models for aScience of Society 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.studymore.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ But he who knows words, may learn this universal rule from others, which delivers us from much labour.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Thus early was he brought into contact with the aggressive Puritan spirit.
^ His early position as a tutor gave him the scope to read, write and publish (a brilliant translation of the Greek writer Thucydides appeared in 1629), and brought him into contact with notable English intellectuals such as Francis Bacon .- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Apart from this, Hobbes owed little to his university training, which was based on the scholastic logic then prevalent.
^ The train, stream, chain or succession of these is the motion that moves Hobbes' universe.- Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer and John Locke: 17th Century Models for aScience of Society 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.studymore.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ At university, Hobbes appears to have followed his own curriculum; he was "little attracted by the scholastic learning".- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ We have from himself a lively record of his student life ( Vit.
^ And therefore he which performeth first does but betray himself to his enemy, contrary to the right he can never abandon of defending his life and means of living.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ And therefore he which performeth first, does but betray himselfe to his enemy; contrary to the Right (he can never abandon) of defending his life, and means of living.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
carm. exp. p. lxxxv.), which, though penned in
extreme old age, may be taken as trustworthy.
.^ Passions of all other men, upon the like occasions.- http://www60.homepage.villanova.edu/hugh.ormsby-lennon/HobbesFirstAid.htm 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www60.homepage.villanova.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ He tells how, when he had slowly taken in the doctrine of logical figures and moods, he put it aside and would prove things only in his own way; how he then heard about bodies as consisting of matter and form, as throwing off species of themselves for perception , and as moved by sympathies and antipathies, with much else of a like sort, all beyond his comprehension; and how he therefore turned to his old books again, fed his mind on maps and charts of earth and sky , traced the sun in his path, followed Drake and Cavendish girdling the main, and gazed with delight upon pictured haunts of men and wonders of unknown lands.
^ For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Very characteristic is the interest in men and things, and the disposition to cut through questions in the schools after a trenchant fashion of his own.
^ For the things that please and displease, are innumerable, and work innumerable ways; but men have taken notice of the passions they have from them in a very few, which also are many of them without name.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ They lived in Detroit most of the early 70's but when they moved back here, Ann and I were very close platonic friends all through school and in college.- Growing Up and Growing Apart - A Love Story - Greg Thomas - Open Salon 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC open.salon.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He was little attracted by the scholastic learning, though it would be wrong to take his words as evidence of a precocious insight into its weakness.
^ At the very end of this definitional passage it might have looked as though Hobbes was straying into natural law ('for the Distinction of Right and Wrong').- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ When a line came into his head, he would, as he was walking, take a rude memorandum of it, to preserve it in his memory till he came to his chamber.- A Brief Life of Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC oregonstate.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ The truth probably is that he took no interest in studies which there was no risk in neglecting, and thought as little of rejecting as of accepting the traditional doctrines.
^ He showed very little interest in the strict scholastic philosophy of the time and took around six years to complete his degree.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Also, before there were great Commonwealths, it was thought no dishonour to be a pirate, or a highway thief.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
He
adds that he took his degree at the proper time; but in fact, upon
any computation and from whatever cause, he remained at Magdalen
Hall five, instead of the required four, years, not being admitted
as
bachelor till the 5th
of February 1608.
.^ He became a tutor to William Cavendish (the future Earl of Devonshire), and began a long association with that family.- Hobbes' Moral Theory Leture Supplement 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.fiu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ In the same year Hobbes was recommended by Wilkinson as tutor to the son of William Cavendish, baron of Hardwick (afterwards 2nd earl of Devonshire ), and thus began a lifelong connexion with a great and powerful family.
^ After graduating from Oxford in February 1608, Hobbes went to work for the Cavendish family, initially as a tutor to William Cavendish (1590–1628), who later became the second earl of Devonshire.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ His exile was related to the civil wars of the time.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Those ninety-one years of his life were coincident with a very important period of English history -- the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, the trouble with the Stuarts, the Civil War, Cromwell, the Restoration.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
^ THE most frequent pretext of sedition and civil war in Christian Commonwealths hath a long time proceeded from a difficulty, not yet sufficiently resolved, of obeying at once both God and man then when their commandments are one contrary to the other.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Hobbes spoke of the first years of his tutorship as the happiest of his life.
^ We were by all accounts, a normal, happy family during my first several years of life.- Growing Up and Growing Apart - A Love Story - Greg Thomas - Open Salon 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC open.salon.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Young Cavendish was hardly younger than Hobbes, and had been married, a few months before, at the instance of the king, to Christiana, the only daughter of Edward, Lord Bruce of Kinloss, though by reason of the bride's age, which was only twelve years, the pair had no establishment for some time.
^ XIII. 18 before 1628, except that through his connexion with young Cavendish he had relations with literary men of note like Ben Jonson , and also with Bacon and Lord Herbert of Cherbury .
^ We are therefore to understand, first, that he wrote the earliest draft of his political theory some years before the outbreak of the Civil War, and, secondly, that this earliest draft was not written till, in accordance with his philosophical conception, he had established the grounds of polity in human nature.
.^ Hobbes’s contempt for scholastic philosophy is boundless.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes's contempt for scholastic philosophy is boundless.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ During this journey, the duration of which cannot be precisely stated, Hobbes acquired some knowledge of French and Italian , and also made the important discovery that the scholastic philosophy which he had learned in Oxford was almost universally neglected in favour of the scientific and critical methods of Galileo, Kepler and Montaigne.
.^ Unable at first to cope with their unfamiliar ideas, he determined to become a scholar, and until 1628 was engaged in a careful study of Greek and Latin authors, the outcome of which was his great translation of Thucydides .
^ The first is the idea of motion, which becomes Hobbes's master metaphor for cause, be it physical, societal, or mental.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes's Translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian Wars Hobbes's decision to translate and publish Thucydides' history in 1628 was certainly a reaction to the growing political tensions in England at this time.- Thomas Hobbes: Methodology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ But when he had finished his work he kept it lying by him for years, being no longer so sure of finding appreciative readers; and when he did send it forth, in 1628, he was fain to be content with " the few and better sort.
^ Is there something that they would help him to do that Hobbes's theory, the lawyer's rule of thumb, or a first-year class in political theory would not do as well, or better?- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The effect whereof is, to pursue that way no longer; but, by consideration of the end, to direct themselves into a better.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ And those several sorts of unions, governments, and subjections of man's will, may be understood to be made, either absolutely, that is to say, for all future time, or for a time limited only.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Those that concern the Commonwealth only may without breach of equity be pardoned; for every man may pardon what is done against himself, according to his own discretion.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ In his own time, the Kings claim of having the final say on political matters was called into question by members of Parliament.- Thomas Hobbes: Methodology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
caret. exp.), but also
from unmistakable hints in the account of the life and work of his
author prefixed to the translation on its appearance.
.^ This was the year of the Petition of Right, extorted from the king in the third parliament he had tried within three years of his accession; and, in view of Hobbes's later activity, it is significant that he came forward just then, at the mature age of forty, with his version of the story of the Athenian democracy as the first production of his pen.
^ Hobbes spoke of the first years of his tutorship as the happiest of his life.
^ The state's authority does not, said Hobbes, rest on the Divine Right of Kings.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Nothing else is known of his doings 1 The translation, under the title Eight Books of the Peloponnesian War , written by Thucydides the son of Olorus, interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greek by Thomas Hobbes, secretary to the late Earl of Devonshire, appeared in 1628 (or 1629), after the death of the earl, to whom touching reference is made in the dedication .
^ His first published work, in 1628, was a translation of eight books of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War .- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
^ After graduating from Oxford in February 1608, Hobbes went to work for the Cavendish family, initially as a tutor to William Cavendish (1590–1628), who later became the second earl of Devonshire.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ It reappeared in 1634, with the date of the dedication altered, as if then newly written.
^ The date of the dedication to the young earl of Devonshire was altered from 1641 to 1646.
.^ But Hobbes is more subtle than this.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Though Hobbes claims to have performed his work " with much more diligence than elegance," his version is remarkable as a piece of English writing, but is by no means accurate.
^ With this objective in mind, Hobbes set to work and wrote a book which became the greatest, perhaps the sole, masterpiece of political philosophy in the English language, The Leviathan.- Political Philosophy: Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Quotes. On Politics, Wisdom and the Dynamic Unity of Reality 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.spaceandmotion.com [Source type: Original source]
It fills
vols. viii. and ix. in
.^ Molesworth's collection (I I vols., including index vol.
) of
.^ Sorrell, Tom (1986) Hobbes (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London) A concise and well-judged account of Hobbes’s life and works.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Though Hobbes claims to have performed his work " with much more diligence than elegance," his version is remarkable as a piece of English writing, but is by no means accurate.
^ The English Works of Thomas Hobbes , ed.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Molesworth's collection (I I vols., including index vol.
^ The volumes of this collection will here be cited as E.W. Molesworth's collection of the Latin Opera philosophica (5 vols., 1839-1845) will be cited as L.W. The five hundred and odd Latin hexameters under the title De mirabilibus Pecci (L.W. v.
^ Molesworth's edition (1839-1845), dedicated to Grote, has been referred to in a former note.
.^ It was a New Year's present to his patron, who gave him £5 in return.
^ Chatsworth to view the seven wonders of the Derbyshire Peak, were written before 1628 (in 1626 or 1627), though not published till 1636.
^ Other important works include: De Corpore [ On the Body ] (1655), which deals with questions of metaphysics; De Homine [ On Man ] (1657); and Behemoth (published 1682, though written rather earlier), in which Hobbes gives his account of England’s Civil Wars.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ A later edition, in 1678, included an English version by another hand.
.^ XIII. 18 before 1628, except that through his connexion with young Cavendish he had relations with literary men of note like Ben Jonson , and also with Bacon and Lord Herbert of Cherbury .
^ Although he associated with literary figures like Ben Jonson and thinkers such as Francis Bacon , he did not extend his efforts into philosophy until after 1629.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After that to understand how do men relate to other men and through this relationship, I can know if there is justice or not among them.
.^ If he never had any sympathy with Herbert's intuitionalist principles in philosophy, he was no less eager, as he afterwards showed, than Herbert to rationalize in matters of religious doctrine, so that he may be called the second of the English deists, as Herbert has been called the first.
^ And what matters in this artificial creation is not a particular model but the essential rational principles which will hold it together.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ The Originall of them all, is that which we call SENSE; (For there is no conception in a mans mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of Sense.- Political Philosophy: Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Quotes. On Politics, Wisdom and the Dynamic Unity of Reality 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.spaceandmotion.com [Source type: Original source]
- Leviathan 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.marxists.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ With Bacon he was so intimate (Aubrey's Lives, pp.
222, 602) that some
writers have described him as a
disciple.
.^ The facts that he used to walk with Bacon at Gorhambury, and would jot down with exceptional intelligence the eager thinker's sudden " notions," and that he was employed to make the Latin version of some of the Essays, prove nothing when weighed against his own disregard of all Bacon's principles, and the other evidence that the impulse to independent thinking came to him not from Bacon, and not till some time after Bacon's death in 1626.1 So far as we have any positive evidence, it was not before the year 1629 that Hobbes entered on philosophical inquiry.
^ In fact, he had some fairly harsh words towards other philosophers of the time that were.- Thomas Hobbes is a conundrum - gprime.net boards 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC gprime.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ All other time is peace.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Meanwhile a great change had been wrought in his circum P lo- stances.
.^ His friend and master, after about two years' tenure of the earldom of Devonshire, died of the plague in June 1628, and the affairs of the family were so disordered financially that the widowed countess was left with the task of righting them in the boyhood of the third earl.
^ After graduating from Oxford in February 1608, Hobbes went to work for the Cavendish family, initially as a tutor to William Cavendish (1590–1628), who later became the second earl of Devonshire.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ In the same year Hobbes was recommended by Wilkinson as tutor to the son of William Cavendish, baron of Hardwick (afterwards 2nd earl of Devonshire ), and thus began a lifelong connexion with a great and powerful family.
.^ Hobbes went on for a time living in the household; but his services were no longer in demand, and, remaining inconsolable under his personal bereavement, he sought distraction , in 1629, in another engagement which took him abroad as tutor to the son of Sir Gervase Clifton , of an old Nottinghamshire family.
^ He went abroad and took his book with him.- Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer and John Locke: 17th Century Models for aScience of Society 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.studymore.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ After graduating from Oxford in February 1608, Hobbes went to work for the Cavendish family, initially as a tutor to William Cavendish (1590–1628), who later became the second earl of Devonshire.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ This, his second, sojourn abroad appears to have been spent chiefly in Paris , and the one important fact recorded of it is that he then first began to look into Euclid .
^ What is the meaning of these words: "The first cause does not necessarily inflow anything into the second, by force of the essential subordination of the second causes, by which it may help it to work?"- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ "The first cause does not necessarily inflow any thing into the second, by force of the Essential subordination of the second causes, by which it may help it to worke?"- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The engagement came to an end in 1631, when he was recalled to train the young earl of Devonshire, now thirteen years old, son of his previous pupil.
^ He left Oxford in 1608 and became a tutor to the young son of William Cavendish, the governor of Devonshire .
^ In the same year Hobbes was recommended by Wilkinson as tutor to the son of William Cavendish, baron of Hardwick (afterwards 2nd earl of Devonshire ), and thus began a lifelong connexion with a great and powerful family.
.^ In the course of the next seven years in Derbyshire and abroad, Hobbes took his pupil over rhetoric , 2 logic, astronomy , and the principles of law, with other subjects.
^ MA thesis on Hobbes next year.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Over the next seven years as well as tutoring he expanded his own knowledge of philosophy, awakening in him curiosity over key philosophic debates.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ His mind was now full of the thought of motion in nature, and on the continent he sought out the philosophical speculators or scientific workers.
^ For the thoughts are to the desires as scouts and spies to range abroad and find the way to the things desired, all steadiness of the mind's motion, and all quickness of the same, proceeding from thence.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The state of nature is not a "rulebase" but the raw material out of which the political philosopher works to bring into being the modern nation-state with its idea of a social contract.
.^ In Florence in 1636 he saw Galileo, for whom he ever retained the warmest admiration, and spent eight months in daily converse with the members of a scientific circle in Paris, held together by Malin Mersenne (q.v.
^ When he was at Florence, he contracted a friendship with the famous Galileo, whom he extremely venerated and magnified .- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
).
.^ From that time (the winter of 1636-1637) he too, as he tells us, was numbered among philosophers.
^ The Short Parliament, as he tells us at a later time (E.W. iv.
.^ His introduction to Euclid took place accidentally in 1629 (Aubrey's Lives, p.
^ Hobbes refers to his first introduction to Euclid, in a way that confirms the story in Aubrey quoted in an earlier paragraph .
604).
.^ Euclid's manner of proof became the model for his own way of thinking upon all subjects.
^ Again, the consent of a subject to sovereign power is contained in these words, "I authorise, or take upon me, all his actions"; in which there is no restriction at all of his own former natural liberty: for by allowing him to kill me, I am not bound to kill myself when he commands me.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Rather than start, like Descartes, with his own cogito ("I am thinking, therefore I am"), Hobbes outlines in his "Introduction" the "similitude" of what all people share, particularly their passions: .- http://www60.homepage.villanova.edu/hugh.ormsby-lennon/HobbesFirstAid.htm 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www60.homepage.villanova.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ It is less easy to determine when he awoke to an interest in the physical doctrine of motion.
.^ The story told by himself ( Vit.
xx.) is that,
.^ There is a story told, but difficult to date, that at a gathering of "learned men" the question was asked, What is sense?- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Teaching therefore, and Preaching is the same thing.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Therefore there is no Idea, or conception of anything we call Infinite.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If therefore he will have no heir, there is no sovereignty, nor subjection.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Starting from this principle he was driven to geometry for insight into the ground and modes of emotion.
^ This mode is indispensable, not only for the singing of the Classical-musical repertoire and to provide instrumentalists with an indispensable grounding in the principles of the bel canto singing voice.- Fidelio Article: LaRouche--Hobbes' Math Misshaped History 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.schillerinstitute.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The biographies we possess do not tell us where or when this great change of interest occurred.
^ Hobbes's view is so close us, so familiar, that we may not recognize as clearly as we should the enormous change that has occurred between his vision and that of Shakespeare in the Tempest .- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ Nothing is said, however, which contradicts a statement that on his third journey in Europe he began to study the doctrine of motion more seriously, being interested in it before; and as he claims more than once (L.W. v.
^ The truth probably is that he took no interest in studies which there was no risk in neglecting, and thought as little of rejecting as of accepting the traditional doctrines.
^ But the Spanish king was more interested in fighting European wars than in investing his money prudently, so all Europe became wealthy on Spanish goldand, by a curious irony, Spain went into something a steep decline once the supply of gold lessened.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
303;
E.W. vii.
.^ Leibniz also paid a good deal of attention to Hobbes's views about motion, in particular those about conatus or endeavour, which have application both to physics and to mathematics.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes begins with questions about mind and language, and works towards questions in political philosophy.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Look’, we might take Hobbes to be saying, ‘I can explain all the workings of the mind using only material resources.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
316;
E.W.
vii.
.^ Bacon's writings, but never mentions Bacon as he mentions Galileo, Kepler, Harvey , and others ( De corpore, ep.
^ The title Elementorum philosophise sectio tertia, De dive, expresses its relation to the unwritten sections, which also comes out in one or two back-references in the text.
^ De corpore References: nnaa Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
ded.), among the lights of the century.
.^ The word " Induction ," which occurs in only three or four passages throughout all his works (and these again minor ones), is never used by him with the faintest reminiscence of the import assigned to it by Bacon; and, as will be seen, he had nothing but scorn for experimental work in physics.
^ "He hath a Divell, and is mad;" whereas others holding him for a Prophet, sayd, "These are not the words of one that hath a Divell."- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Again, the consent of a subject to sovereign power is contained in these words, "I authorise, or take upon me, all his actions"; in which there is no restriction at all of his own former natural liberty: for by allowing him to kill me, I am not bound to kill myself when he commands me.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ The free English abstract of Aristotle's Rhetoric, published in 1681, after Hobbes's death, as The Whole Art of Rhetoric (E.W. vi.
^ This Answer was first published after Hobbes's death."
^ Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (July 20, 2009) Language: English ENJOY Download: Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes .- Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes - Free Online Movies Forum - Watch Movies Online Free 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC freeonlinemoviesforum.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Latin version dictated to his young pupil.
.^ Among Hobbes's papers preserved at Hardwick, where he died, there remains the boy's dictation-book, interspersed with headings, examples, &c.
^ Irritating as it was, it did not avail to shake Hobbes's determination to remain silent; and thus at last there was peace for a time.
^ Du Verdus was one of Hobbes's profoundest admirers and most frequent correspondents in later years; there are many of his letters among Hobbes's papers at Hardwick.
in
Hobbes's hand.
a mechanical
.^ I think the difficulty is that Hobbes did not know how far back into biology he had to go, and clearly evolutionary science was not known in his time.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ But it was not till the third journey that the new interest became an overpowering passion, and the " philosopher " was on his way home before he had advanced so far as to conceive the scheme of a system of thought to the elaboration of which his life should henceforth be devoted.
^ Also because whatsoever (as I said before,) we conceive, has been perceived first by sense, either all at once, or by parts; a man can have no thought, representing any thing, not subject to sense.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And the cause of it being the want of leisure from procuring the necessities of life, and defending themselves against their neighbours, it was impossible, till the erecting of great Commonwealths, it should be otherwise.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
.^ Hobbes likes his scheme particularly because he believes anyone can understand it.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ By these events Hobbes was distracted from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan.
^ Hobbes was able to carry out his plan in some twenty years or more from the time of its conception, but the execution was so broken in upon by political events, and so complicated with other labours, that its stages can hardly be followed without some previous understanding of the relations of the parts of the scheme, as there is reason to believe they were sketched out from the beginning.
.^ Their theories are usually classified as being philosophical.- Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer and John Locke: 17th Century Models for aScience of Society 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.studymore.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ SCIENCE, that is, knowledge of consequences; which is called also PHILOSOPHY Consequences from accidents of bodies natural; which is called NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Consequences from accidents common to all bodies natural; which are quantity, and motion.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Chapter six of De Corpore is Hobbes's main work on method.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ So far as the treatise De homine (L.W. ii.
^ He would then single out Man from the realm of nature, and, in a treatise De homine, show what specific bodily motions were involved in the production of the peculiar phenomena of sensation and knowledge, as also of the affections and passions thence resulting, whereby man came into relation with man.
^ He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature and plants.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I am interested to know how Hobbes considered human nature.
^ If we can’t do this, then many of the achievements of human society that involve putting hard work into land (farming, building) or material objects (the crafts, or modern industrial production, still unknown in Hobbes’s time) will be near impossible.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ If we can't do this, then many of the achievements of human society that involve putting hard work into land (farming, building) or material objects (the crafts, or modern industrial production, still unknown in Hobbes's time) will be near impossible.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ For it is upon this ground, that when a Man is dead and buried, they say his Soule (that is his Life) can walk separated from his Body, and is seen by night amongst the graves.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Secondly, though thus assembled with intention to unite themselves, they are yet in that estate in which every man hath right to everything, and consequently, as hath been said, chap.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus far concerning the Nature of Man, and the constitution and properties of a Body Politic.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Hobbes came home, in 1637, to a country seething with discontent.
^ Hobbes came home, in 1637, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The reign of " Thorough " was collapsing, and the forces pent up since 1629 were soon to rend the fabric of the state.
.^ By these events Hobbes was distracted from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan.
^ Hobbes came home, in 1637, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Without these, scholars might remember Hobbes as an interesting intellectual of the seventeenth century; but few philosophers would even recognize his name.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Aubrey tells us that he went to school in Westport when four years old, and could, at that time, read well, and number four figures.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
41 4), was not dissolved before
he had ready " a little treatise in English," in which he sought to
prove that the points of the royal
prerogative which the members were
determined to dispute before granting supplies " were inseparably
annexed to the
sovereignty which they did not then deny to
be in the king." Now it can be proved that at this time he had
written not only his
Human Nature but also his
De
corpore politico, the two treatises (though published
separately ten years later) having been composed as parts of one
work; 3 and there cannot be the least question that together they
make " the little treatise " just mentioned.
.^ We are therefore to understand, first, that he wrote the earliest draft of his political theory some years before the outbreak of the Civil War, and, secondly, that this earliest draft was not written till, in accordance with his philosophical conception, he had established the grounds of polity in human nature.
^ The remainder of the treatise dealt cursorily with some of the topics more fully treated in the Human Nature and the Leviathan .- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There are in it, to be sure, quaintnesses and allusions which require an understanding of the conditions under which it was written, and of the man who wrote it, if they themselves are to be understood.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The first point is to be noted, because it has often been supposed that Hobbes's political doctrine took its peculiar complexion from his revulsion against the state of anarchy before his eyes, as he wrote during the progress of the Civil War.
^ For Hobbes, State of Nature is something else - a war of all against all.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ However, Hobbes realizes that this state of nature, this Sisyphus-like life of despair, inevitably devolves into anarchy – a “war of all against all” (bellum omnium contra omnes), an existential existence where life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” .- How Thomas Hobbes is helping destroy America : WesternFront America 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC westernfrontamerica.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The second point must be maintained against his own implied, if not express, statement some years later, when publishing his De cive (L.W. ii.
^ We are therefore to understand, first, that he wrote the earliest draft of his political theory some years before the outbreak of the Civil War, and, secondly, that this earliest draft was not written till, in accordance with his philosophical conception, he had established the grounds of polity in human nature.
^ In 1640 he wrote “The Elements of Laws, Natural and Politic;” in 1642 he published De Cive (The Citizen); in 1655 he wrote De Corpore (Concerning the Body); in 1658 he published De Homine (Concerning Man); and later on in France he wrote the famous work called Leviathan .
.^ In the beginning of 1640, therefore, he had written out his doctrine of Man at least, with almost as much elaboration as it ever received from him.
^ But this is certain; by how much one man has more experience of things past, than another; by so much also he is more Prudent, and his expectations the seldomer faile him.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It is therefore manifest, that wee may dispute the Doctrine of our Pastors; but no man can dispute a Law.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
In November 1640 the Long Parliament succeeded to the Short, and
sent
Laud and Strafford to the
Tower, and Hobbes, who had
become, or thought he had become, a marked man by the circulation
of his treatise (of which, " though not printed, many gentlemen had
copies "), hastened to Paris, " the first of all that fled." He was
now for the fourth and last time abroad, and did not return for
eleven years. Apparently he remained the greater part of the time
in or about 3 Among the Hardwick papers there is preserved a MS.
copy of the work, under the title
Elementes of Law Naturall and
Politique, with the dedication to the earl of
Newcastle, written in
Hobbes's own hand, and dated May 9, 1640. This dedication was
prefixed to the first thirteen chapters of the work when printed by
themselves, under the title
Human Nature in 1650.
Paris.
.^ He was welcomed back into the scientific coterie about Mersenne, and forthwith had the task assigned him of criticizing the Meditations of Descartes , which had been sent from Holland , before publication, to Mersenne with the author's request for criticism from the most different points of view.
^ About the same time also Mersenne sent to Descartes, as if they came from a friend in England , another set of objections which Hobbes had to offer on various points in the scientific treatises, especially the Dioptrics, appended by Descartes to his Discourse on Method in 1637; to which Descartes replied without suspecting the common authorship of the two sets.
^ His self-imposed exile in France, along with his emerging reputation as a scientist and thinker, brought him into contact with major European intellectual figures of his time, leading to exchange and controversy with figures such as Descartes , Mersenne and Gassendi.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Then in 1641 Hobbes's objections were among those published along with Descartes's Meditations .- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ In Paris he rejoined the coterie about Mersenne, and wrote a critique of the Meditations on First Philosophy of Descartes , which was printed as third among the sets of "Objections" appended, with "Replies" from Descartes in 1641.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hobbes was soon ready with the remarks that were printed as " Third " among the six (later seven) sets of " Objections " appended, with " Replies " from Descartes, to the Meditations, when published shortly afterwards in 1641 (reprinted in L.W. v.
2 492 74).
.^ In 1640 Hobbes sent to Mersenne a set of comments on Descartes's Discourse and Optics .- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ At this time Hobbes also had a series of interactions with Descartes.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ About the same time also Mersenne sent to Descartes, as if they came from a friend in England , another set of objections which Hobbes had to offer on various points in the scientific treatises, especially the Dioptrics, appended by Descartes to his Discourse on Method in 1637; to which Descartes replied without suspecting the common authorship of the two sets.
.^ The result was to keep the two thinkers apart rather than bring them together.
^ One way of reading this is to suppose that he has to keep the two claims apart because otherwise the equivocation would become obvious.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ As a philosophical thinker he was speedily eclipsed by John Locke (1632-1704) who, rather than Hobbes, was to become the force which energized British philosophy.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Hobbes was more eager to bring forward his own philosophical and physical ideas than careful to enter into the full meaning of another's thought; and Descartes was too jealous, and too confident in his conclusions to bear with this kind of criticism.
^ But Hobbes is more subtle than this.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Taking up mathematics when not only his mind was already formed but his thoughts were crystallizing into a philosophical system, Hobbes had, in fact, never put himself to school and sought to work up gradually to the best knowledge of the time, but had been more anxious from the first to become himself an innovator with whatever insufficient means.
.^ He was very curt in his replies to Hobbes's philosophical objections, and broke off all correspondence on the physical questions, writing privately to Mersenne that he had grave doubts of the Englishman's good faith in drawing him into controversy (L.W. v.
^ What are the writings that earned Hobbes his philosophical fame?- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ His self-imposed exile in France, along with his emerging reputation as a scientist and thinker, brought him into contact with major European intellectual figures of his time, leading to exchange and controversy with figures such as Descartes , Mersenne and Gassendi.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
277-307).
.^ Meanwhile Hobbes had his thoughts too full of the political theory which the events of the last years had ripened within him to settle , even in Paris, to the orderly composition of his works.
^ Hobbes, then verging upon eighty, was terrified at the prospect of being treated as a heretic, and proceeded to burn such of his papers as he thought might compromise him.
^ Ethics and Human Nature Hobbes's moral thought is difficult to disentangle from his politics.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Though connected in his own mind with his view of human nature and of nature generally, the political theory, as he always declared, could stand by itself.
^ We are therefore to understand, first, that he wrote the earliest draft of his political theory some years before the outbreak of the Civil War, and, secondly, that this earliest draft was not written till, in accordance with his philosophical conception, he had established the grounds of polity in human nature.
^ But we could also make state of nature theories to explain how the human race emerged.- Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer and John Locke: 17th Century Models for aScience of Society 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.studymore.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Also, while he may have hoped at this time to be able to add much (though he never did) to the sketch of his doctrine of Man contained in the unpublished " little treatise," he might extend, but could hardly otherwise modify, the sketch he had there given of his carefully articulated theory of Body Politic.
^ And so much for the Time when he may do it lawfully, if hee will.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And so much for the time when he may do it lawfully, if he will.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
.^ Possibly, indeed, before that sketch was written early in 1640, he may, under pressure of the political excitement, have advanced no small way in the actual composition of the treatise De Cive, the third section of his projected system.
^ In 1640 he wrote “The Elements of Laws, Natural and Politic;” in 1642 he published De Cive (The Citizen); in 1655 he wrote De Corpore (Concerning the Body); in 1658 he published De Homine (Concerning Man); and later on in France he wrote the famous work called Leviathan .
^ For a Judge may erre in the Interpretation even of written Lawes; but no errour of a subordinate Judge, can change the Law, which is the generall Sentence of the Soveraigne.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ As before, Hobbes had just finished a book.- The First Counter-revolutionary 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In any case, it was upon this section, before the others, that he set to work in Paris; and before the end of 1641 the book, as we know from the date of the dedication (November 1), was finished.
^ In Paris he rejoined the coterie about Mersenne, and wrote a critique of the Meditations on First Philosophy of Descartes , which was printed as third among the sets of "Objections" appended, with "Replies" from Descartes in 1641.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Though it was forthwith printed in the course of the year 1642, he was content to circulate a limited number of copies privately 1; and when he found his work received with applause (it was praised even by Descartes), he seems to have taken this recognition of his philosophical achievement as an additional reason for deferring publication till the earlier works of the system were completed.
^ Taking up his abode in Fetter Lane, London, on his return, and continuing to reside there for the sake of intellectual society, even after renewing his old ties with the earl of Devonshire, who lived in the country till the Restoration,4 he worked so steadily as to be printing the De corpore in the year 1654.
^ It has taken a long time, but it seems that even orthodox legal theorists are coming to agree with Hobbes that 'reason' alone cannot do the trick.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Accordingly, for the next three or four years, he remained steadily at work, and nothing appeared from him in public except a short treatise on optics ( Tractatus opticus, L.W. v.
^ The word " Induction ," which occurs in only three or four passages throughout all his works (and these again minor ones), is never used by him with the faintest reminiscence of the import assigned to it by Bacon; and, as will be seen, he had nothing but scorn for experimental work in physics.
^ Meanwhile Hobbes had his thoughts too full of the political theory which the events of the last years had ripened within him to settle , even in Paris, to the orderly composition of his works.
.^ Mersenne under the title Cogitata physico-mathematica in 1644, and a highly compressed statement of his psychological application of the doctrine of motion (L.W. v.
^ He then returned to hard work on the first two sections of his work and published little except for a short treatise on optics ( Tractatus opticus ) included in the collection of scientific tracts published by Mersenne as Cogitata physico-mathematica in 1644.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ NUC. First published in Paris in 1642 under title: Elementorum philosophiae sectio tertia de cive.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
.^ Mersenne's Ballistica, published in the same year.
.^ He built a good reputation in philosophic circles and in 1645 was chosen with Descartes, Gilles de Roberval and others, to referee the controversy between John Pell and Longomontanus over the problem of squaring the circle .- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Thus or otherwise he had become sufficiently known by 1645 to be chosen as a referee , with Descartes, Roberval and others, in the famous controversy between John Pell and the Dane Longomontanus over that problem of the squaring of the circle which was seen later on to have such a fatal charm for himself.
^ Apparently he did nothing with mathematics, a subject which later much occupied his mind, and led him into a bitter controversy with the Oxford professors over such problems as squaring the circle and duplicating the cube.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
But though about this time he had got ready all or most of
the materials for his fundamental work on Body, not even now was he
able to make way with its composition, 1 The book, of which the
copies are rare (one in Dr Williams's library in
London and one in the Bodleian), was printed in
quarto size (Paris, 1642),
with a pictorial title-
page (not
afterwards reproduced) of scenes and figures illustrating its three
divisions, " Libertas," " Imperium," " Religio." The title
Elementorum philosophise sectio tertia, De dive, expresses
its relation to the unwritten sections, which also comes out in one
or two back-references in the text.
and when he returned to it after a number of years, he returned
a different man.
.^ Then commenced an exodus of the king's friends.
^ The English Civil War broke out in 1642, and when the Royalist cause began to decline in the middle of 1644 there was an exodus of the king's supporters to Europe.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ His exile was related to the civil wars of the time.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Newcastle himself, who was a cousin of Hobbes's late patron and to whom he dedicated the " little treatise " of 1640, found his way to Paris, and was followed by a stream of fugitives, many of whom were known to Hobbes.
^ In November 1640 the Long Parliament succeeded to the Short, and sent Laud and Strafford to the Tower , and Hobbes, who had become, or thought he had become, a marked man by the circulation of his treatise (of which, " though not printed, many gentlemen had copies "), hastened to Paris, " the first of all that fled."
^ Thus, many of Hobbes's critics in the seventeenth century, including those who vehemently attacked his religious views, still thought he believed in the existence of God.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ The sight of these exiles made the political interest once more predominant in Hobbes, and before long the revived feeling issued in the formation of a new and important design.
^ But Hobbes’s main interest lies in the educative power of religion, and indeed of political authority.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ This revitalised Hobbes' political interests and the De Cive was republished and more widely distributed.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ It first showed itself in the publication of the De cive, of which the fame, but only the fame, had extended beyond the inner circle of friends and critics who had copies of the original impression.
^ Tenthly, hurt inflicted on the representative of the Commonwealth is not punishment, but an act of hostility: because it is of the nature of punishment to be inflicted by public authority, which is the authority only of the representative itself.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ During his time in France, Hobbes continued to associate with Mersenne and his circle, including Pierre Gassendi, who seems to have been a particular friend of Hobbes's.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Hobbes' physics is the weakest part of his system.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes now entrusted it, early in 1646, to his admirer, the Frenchman Samuel de Sorbiere, by whom it was seen through the Elzevir press at Amsterdam in 1647 - having previously inserted a number of notes in reply to objections, and also a striking preface, in the course of which he explained its relation to the other parts of the system not yet forthcoming, and the (political) occasion of its having been composed and being now published before them.
^ And it is interesting as a part of Hobbes's system.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ So hopeless, meanwhile, was he growing of being able to return home that, later on in the year, he was on the point of leaving Paris to take up his abode in the south with a French friend, 3 when he was engaged " by the month " as mathematical instructor to the young prince of Wales , who had come over from Jersey about the month of July.
^ Taking up his abode in Fetter Lane, London, on his return, and continuing to reside there for the sake of intellectual society, even after renewing his old ties with the earl of Devonshire, who lived in the country till the Restoration,4 he worked so steadily as to be printing the De corpore in the year 1654.
^ Henry writes, “I think a one horse trap should be sent with the handcart company to fetch up the sick and not leave them to the care of strangers.” This is about as close as he ever comes in the journal to complaining.
.^ This engagement lasted until 1648 when Charles went to Holland.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This engagement lasted nominally from 1646 to 1648 when Charles went to Holland.
.^ His exile was related to the civil wars of the time.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus thrown more than Leviathan .
^ English book that should set forth his whole theory of civil government in relation to the political crisis resulting from the war.
.^ De Cive (Latin) 1651.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The De cive, presently to be published, was written in Latin for the learned, and gave the political theory without its foundation in human nature.
^ We are therefore to understand, first, that he wrote the earliest draft of his political theory some years before the outbreak of the Civil War, and, secondly, that this earliest draft was not written till, in accordance with his philosophical conception, he had established the grounds of polity in human nature.
.^ The unpublished treatise of 1640 contained all or nearly all that he had to tell concerning human nature, but was written before the terrible events of the last years had disclosed how men might still be urged by their anti-social passions back into the abyss of anarchy.
^ In this state of nature all men are equal.
^ We are therefore to understand, first, that he wrote the earliest draft of his political theory some years before the outbreak of the Civil War, and, secondly, that this earliest draft was not written till, in accordance with his philosophical conception, he had established the grounds of polity in human nature.
.^ There was need of an exposition at once comprehensive, incisive and popular.
^ The sacraments of admission are but once to be used, because there needs but one admission; but because we have need of being often put in mind of our deliverance and of our allegiance, the sacraments of commemoration have need to be reiterated.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The Sacraments of Admission, are but once to be used, because there needs but one Admission; but because we have need of being often put in mind of our deliverance, and of our Allegeance, The Sacraments of Commemoration have need to be reiterated.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The State, it now seemed to Hobbes, might be regarded as a great artificial man or monster ( Leviathan ), composed of men, with a life that might be traced from its generation through human reason under pressure of human needs to its dissolution through civil strife proceeding from human passions.
^ Hobbes was associated with the royalist side, and might also have had reason to fear punishment because of his defence of absolute sovereignty in his political philosophy.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes, then verging upon eighty, was terrified at the prospect of being treated as a heretic, and proceeded to burn such of his papers as he thought might compromise him.
.^ This, we may suppose, was the presiding conception from the first, but the design may have been variously modified in the three or four years of its execution.
^ Accordingly, for the next three or four years, he remained steadily at work, and nothing appeared from him in public except a short treatise on optics ( Tractatus opticus, L.W. v.
.^ Before the end, in 1650-1651, it is plain that he wrote in direct reference to the greatly changed aspect of affairs in England.
.^ As if, for example, the right of the kings of England did depend on the goodness of the cause of William the Conqueror, and upon their lineal and directest descent from him; by which means, there would perhaps be no tie of the subjects' obedience to their sovereign at this day in all the world: wherein whilst they needlessly think to justify themselves, they justify all the successful rebellions that ambition shall at any time raise against them and their successors.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
^ As to the question, who shall appoint the Successor, of a Monarch that hath the Soveraign Authority; that is to say, (for Elective Kings and Princes have not the Soveraign Power in propriety, but in use only,) we are to consider, that either he that is in possession, has right to dispose of the Succession, or else that right is again in the dissolved Multitude.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In such an arrangement, all the power of the assembled human beings rests with the Sovereign.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ The first public edition was titled Elementa philosophica de cive .- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Title: Leviathan; or, The matter, forme and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiasticall and civil.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
^ Also he criticized religious doctrines on rationalistic grounds in the Commonwealth.- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The date of the dedication to the
young earl of Devonshire was altered from 1641 to 1646.
.^ Described as "nobilis Languedocianus " in Vit.; doubtless the same with the " Dominus Verdusius, nobilis Aquitanus," to whom was dedicated the Exam.
et emend. math. hod. (L.W. iv.) in
.^ There is one name, and there are many trees.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Du Verdus was one of Hobbes's profoundest admirers and most frequent correspondents in later years; there are many of his letters among Hobbes's papers at Hardwick.
^ Or, to be more accurate, there are good reasons to see Hobbes as one who was relying on the scientific method (as he understood it) for his ultimate epistemological backstop.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
to wield all sanctions, supernatural as well as natural, against
the pretensions of any clergy,
.^ Catholic , Anglican or Presbyterian, to the exercise of an imperium in imperio.
^ We know the Leviathan only as it finally emerged from Hobbes's pen.
^ For Hobbes, it is only science, "the knowledge of consequences" ( Leviathan , v.17), that offers reliable knowledge of the future and overcomes the frailties of human judgment.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ During the years of its composition he remained in or near Paris, at first in attendance on his royal pupil, with whom he became a great favourite.
^ Meanwhile Hobbes had his thoughts too full of the political theory which the events of the last years had ripened within him to settle , even in Paris, to the orderly composition of his works.
^ In Paris he joined a circle about Mersenne, who was living in a monastery near the Place Royale, and whose cell became the resort of local scholars and distinguished foreigners.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ In 1647 Hobbes was overtaken by a serious illness which disabled him for six months.- Thomas Hobbes - LoveToKnow 1911 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.1911encyclopedia.org [Source type: Original source]
- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Mersenne begged him not to die outside the Roman Catholic Church , but Hobbes said that he had already considered the matter sufficiently and afterwards took the sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England .
^ Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 Hobbes gravestone in Ault Hucknall church, Derbyshire, England .- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
^ So Hobbes argues that the matter, form and power of church and state (combined) are as the power of a devouring monster that we cannot make contracts with, but which we nevertheless allow to rule us.- Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer and John Locke: 17th Century Models for aScience of Society 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.studymore.org.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ On recovering from this illness,which nearly proved fatal, he resumed his literary task, and carried it steadily forward to completion by the year 1650, having also within the same time translated into English, with characteristic force of expression, his Latin treatise.
^ Subjects: Homer -- Translations into English.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
^ He showed very little interest in the strict scholastic philosophy of the time and took around six years to complete his degree.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ So that here be two sorts of names: one of things, in which we conceive something, or of the conceptions themselves, which are called POSITIVE; the other of things wherein we conceive privation or defect, and those names are called PRIVATIVE. .- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The inconveniences of government in general to a subject are none at all, if well considered; but in appearance there be two things that may trouble his mind, or two general grievances.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ These operations are not incident to numbers only, but to all manner of things that can be added together, and taken one out of another.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ His Humane nature, 1650.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
^ When ' 1650 came, as if to prepare the way for the reception of his magnum opus , he allowed the publication of his earliest treatise, divided into two separate small volumes ( Human Nature, or the Fundamental, Elements of Policy, E.W. iv.
^ In 1650, to prepare the way for his magnum opus , he allowed the publication of his earliest treatise, divided into two separate small volumes ( Human Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policie , and De corpore politico, or the Elements of Law, Moral and Politick ).- What is Thomas Hobbes? 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ipedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The second treatise contained the rest of the first, together with the second, part, and was entitled De corpore politico; or, The elements of law, moral and politic ...- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
^ De corpore politico.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
^ In 1640 he wrote “The Elements of Laws, Natural and Politic;” in 1642 he published De Cive (The Citizen); in 1655 he wrote De Corpore (Concerning the Body); in 1658 he published De Homine (Concerning Man); and later on in France he wrote the famous work called Leviathan .
.^ Philosophical rudiments concerning government and society Notes: His Man and citizen, c1990: -- CIP t.p.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
^ (Philosophical rudiments concerning government and society) Heading: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
^ In 1651 2 he published his translation of the De Cive under the title of Philosophical Rudiments concerning Government and Society (E.W. ii.
).
.^ Meanwhile the printing of the greater work was proceeding, and finally it appeared about the middle of the same year, 1651, under the title of Leviathan, or the Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil (E.W. iii.
^ Frederick J. E. Woodbridge (1930) INTRODUCTION Thomas Hobbes, by publishing in London, in 1651, a book with the title, Leviathan, or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil , made a place for himself among those writers on social and political subjects who find many readers in lands and times besides their own.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Leviathan, or, The Matter, Forme and Power of A Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical And Civill INTRODUCTION NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man imitated.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
), with a
.^ The frontispiece to the Leviathan represents a giant with a crown upon his head, a sword in his right hand and a crosier in his left, rising from behind the hills which overlook a city.- Hobbes Selections 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But this is no Body Politique, there being no Common Representative to oblige them to any other Law, than that which is common to all other subjects.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We will see that there is moral force behind the laws and requirements of the state, simply because human beings do indeed need authority and systems of enforcement if they are to cooperate peacefully.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ It appeared, and soon its author was more lauded and decried than any other thinker of his time; but the first effect of its publication was to sever his connexion with the exiled royalist party, and to throw him for protection on the revolutionary Government.
^ Contained in his theory is that while some men may be stronger or more intelligent than others, none is so strong and smart as to be beyond a fear of violent death.- How Thomas Hobbes is helping destroy America : WesternFront America 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC westernfrontamerica.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In particular, he often speaks of “covenants,” by which he means a contract where one party performs his part of the bargain later than the other.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ About these points fundamental there is little controversy amongst Christians, though otherwise of different sects amongst themselves.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Secondly, upon the sight of anything that hath a beginning, to think also it had a cause which determined the same to begin then when it did, rather than sooner or later.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ That which the high priest did to Athaliah was not done in his own right, but in the right of the young King Joash, her son: But Solomon in his own right deposed the high priest Abiathar, and set up another in his place.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
Straightway, then, he saw himself
exposed to a double peril.
.^ Any attempt of subjects to oppose their king is equal to opposing oneself because the subject is the one who put the king in authority.
^ For who is there that does not see to whose benefit it conduceth to have it believed that a king hath not his authority from Christ unless a bishop crown him?- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ In the Book of Judges, an extraordinary zeal and courage in the defence of God's people is called the Spirit of God; as when it excited Othniel, Gideon, Jephtha, and Samson to deliver them from servitude, Judges, 3.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ In the circumstances, no resource was left him but secret flight.
^ And if it be in no particular man, but left to a new choice; then is the Commonwealth dissolved, and the right is in him that can get it, contrary to the intention of them that did institute the Commonwealth for their perpetual, and not temporary, security.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ And if it be in no particular man, but left to a new choyce; then is the Common-wealth dissolved; and the Right is in him that can get it; contrary to the intention of them that did institute the Common-wealth, for their perpetuall, and not temporary security.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ If the state of nature is anything like as bad as Hobbes has argued, then there's just no way people could ever make an agreement like this or put it into practice.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ So you could *lapse* into the State of Nature on Hobbes' account (indeed the threat of that lape is a key argument for why the Sovereign must be absolute).- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Since the contract you entered into was designed to protect your life, the moment your life becomes threatened by the state, you are released from your obligations.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ At the very end of this definitional passage it might have looked as though Hobbes was straying into natural law ('for the Distinction of Right and Wrong').- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Second, in any case Hobbes often relies on a more sophisticated view of human nature.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes, who was born in 1588, was a young man aged 22 at the time of the writing of the Tempest , but if he knew the play, he was obviously unwilling to attend at all to its vision of the world when he came to write the Leviathan .- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
i.-xiii. of the
first part of the original treatise.
.^ De corpore politico.- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) : Library of Congress Citations 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Academic]
^ The remaining six chapters of the part stand now as Part I. of the De corpore politico.
^ Part II. of Ithe D.C.P. corresponds with the original second part of the whole work.
.^ At the beginning of this year he wrote and published in Paris a letter on the nature and conditions of poetry , chiefly epic, in answer to an appeal to his judgment made in the preface to Sir W. Davenant's heroic poem, Gondibert (E.W. iv.
^ If they be made law by God Himself, they are of the nature of written law, which are laws to them only to whom God hath so sufficiently published them as no man can excuse himself by saying he knew not they were His.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ If they be made Law by God himselfe, they are of the nature of written Law, which are Laws to them only to whom God hath so sufficiently published them, as no man can excuse himself, by saying, he know not they were his.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
445-458).
.^ The letter is dated Jan.
50,
1650 (1650/I).
.^ This presentation copy, so described by Clarendon ( Survey of the Leviathan, 5676, p.
^ This exemption, far from not being present in ‘Leviathan, was one of the main reasons why Hobbes was vituperated by several royalists, notably Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Early on he mentions a complimentary bath in the “warm sulpher spring,” doubtless the one where the Children’s Museum of Utah is now.
in no humble
mood that he now,
at the age of sixty-four, turned to complete the fundamental
treatise of his philosophical system.
.^ If the state of nature is anything like as bad as Hobbes has argued, then there's just no way people could ever make an agreement like this or put it into practice.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ And that anything hath power now to produce another thing hereafter, we cannot conceive, but by remembrance that it hath produced the like heretofore.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ If the state of nature is anything like as bad as Hobbes has argued, then there’s just no way people could ever make an agreement like this or put it into practice.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ In Leviathan and De Corpore something more complex goes on.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ After graduating from Oxford in February 1608, Hobbes went to work for the Cavendish family, initially as a tutor to William Cavendish (1590–1628), who later became the second earl of Devonshire.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1640 he wrote “The Elements of Laws, Natural and Politic;” in 1642 he published De Cive (The Citizen); in 1655 he wrote De Corpore (Concerning the Body); in 1658 he published De Homine (Concerning Man); and later on in France he wrote the famous work called Leviathan .
In 1654 a small
treatise, " Of Liberty and Necessity " (E.W. iv.
.^ In his Answer to Bishop Bramhall , Hobbes describes God as a “corporeal spirit” (Hobbes 1662, 4.306).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ However, Hobbes does seem in his Answer to Bishop Bramhall and the Appendix to the Latin edition of Leviathan to believe this strange view sincerely.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes, T., 1662, An Answer to Bishop Bramhall's Book, called “The Catching of the Leviathan” , in W. Molesworth (ed.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
1663), addressed
by Hobbes to the marquis of Newcastle.
.^ Hobbes's view is so close us, so familiar, that we may not recognize as clearly as we should the enormous change that has occurred between his vision and that of Shakespeare in the Tempest .- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ I think an evolutionary view of Hobbes thought would answer this effectively.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Also because whatsoever (as I said before,) we conceive, has been perceived first by sense, either all at once, or by parts; a man can have no thought, representing any thing, not subject to sense.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Aubrey reports that the two “mutually respected one another”, but also that Hobbes thought that Descartes would have been better off sticking to geometry (Aubrey 1696, 1.367).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Actually Hobbes is forced to go even further than suggested by posters above, because of his insistence that duress is not a 'defence' to the enforceability of any covenant between the sovereign and the subject.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ By this means it was that Julius Caesar, who was set up by the people against the senate, having won to himself the affections of his army, made himself master both of senate and people.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes, who was born in 1588, was a young man aged 22 at the time of the writing of the Tempest , but if he knew the play, he was obviously unwilling to attend at all to its vision of the world when he came to write the Leviathan .- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ The question now is, Who it was that gave to these written Tables the obligatory force of Lawes.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ "If there be a Prophet among you, I the Lord will make my self known to him in a Vision, and will speak unto him in a Dream.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In chapter 2 of Leviathan Hobbes comes to these topics at a slightly surprising point.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ In the first paragraph of his chapter 'Of Civill Lawes' in the Leviathan, Hobbes tells us that 'Civill Law' is sometimes used to refer to the received Roman law: 'But that is not what I intend to speak of here; my designe being not to shew what is Law here, and there; but what is Law; as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and divers others have done, without taking upon them the profession of the study of the Law.'- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ To which I can give no other kind of answer but that which is given to those that urge the Scripture in like manner against the opinion of the motion of the earth.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ But when a covenant is made, then to break it is unjust and the definition of injustice is no other than the not performance of covenant.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Others suppose that Hobbes has a much more complex picture of human motivation, so that there is no reason to think moral ideas are absent in the state of nature.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ But Hobbes is more subtle than this.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Vision, though a more cleer Vision than was given to other Prophets.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This section focuses on Hobbes's materialism about human beings.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
By 1656 he was
ready with his
Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance (E.W. v.), in which
he replied with astonishing force to the bishop's rejoinder point
by point, besides explaining the occasion and circumstances of the
whole debate, and reproducing (as Bramhall had done) all the pieces
from the beginning.
.^ Commentators debate how seriously to take Hobbes’s stress on the importance of definition, and whether it embodies a definite philosophical doctrine.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes's is the first doctrine that necessarily and unmistakably points to a thoroughly 'enlightened', i.e., a-religious or atheistic society as the solution of the social or political problem.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ From the stillness of the moment which must always precede the beginning of the piece's opening enunciation, through to the concluding momentary silence, the performance is governed by an unchanging goal.- Fidelio Article: LaRouche--Hobbes' Math Misshaped History 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.schillerinstitute.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ And those several sorts of unions, governments, and subjections of man's will, may be understood to be made, either absolutely, that is to say, for all future time, or for a time limited only.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ For the thoughts are to the desires as scouts and spies to range abroad and find the way to the things desired, all steadiness of the mind's motion, and all quickness of the same, proceeding from thence.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ For they were the sovereign all the time, as appeareth by the acts of those elective kings, that have procured from the people, that their children might succeed them.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ After their rejection of God in the demand of a King, they enjoyed still the same revenue; but the Right thereof was derived from that, that the Kings did never take it from them: for the Publique Revenue was at the disposing of him that was the Publique Person; and that (till the Captivity) was the King.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And though this law may be drawn by consequence from some of those that are there already mentioned, yet the times require to have it inculcated and remembered.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
^ Secondly, though thus assembled with intention to unite themselves, they are yet in that estate in which every man hath right to everything, and consequently, as hath been said, chap.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
who left him a
legacy of £IO.
According to Aubrey, Selden left him an equal
bequest, but this seems to be a mistake.
.^ If they be made Law by God himselfe, they are of the nature of written Law, which are Laws to them only to whom God hath so sufficiently published them, as no man can excuse himself, by saying, he know not they were his.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus the first part of The Elements of Law is titled “Human Nature” and the second “De Corpore Politico” (i.e., “About the Body Politic”).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ If they be made law by God Himself, they are of the nature of written law, which are laws to them only to whom God hath so sufficiently published them as no man can excuse himself by saying he knew not they were His.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
s The treatise bore the date, " `
Rouen, Aug.
.^ Before we ask whether Hobbes, himself, 'succeeded' and inquire into the morality of his definition, we should ask, 'Should our jurisprudence follow the model of his?'- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Hobbes's Leviathan, part 6: Responses to readers .- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes's Leviathan, part 5: The end of individualism .- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes's Leviathan, part 7: His idea of war .- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
279-384).
.^ De Cive (1642) was Hobbes's first published book of political philosophy.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ So the answers to the first two questions I posed--what theory of language Hobbes puts in place of essentialism and what exactly Hobbes is doing, when he himself defines law--are rather complicated.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ At this time Hobbes also had a series of interactions with Descartes.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Other important works include: De Corpore [ On the Body ] (1655), which deals with questions of metaphysics; De Homine [ On Man ] (1657); and Behemoth (published 1682, though written rather earlier), in which Hobbes gives his account of England's Civil Wars.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1640 he wrote “The Elements of Laws, Natural and Politic;” in 1642 he published De Cive (The Citizen); in 1655 he wrote De Corpore (Concerning the Body); in 1658 he published De Homine (Concerning Man); and later on in France he wrote the famous work called Leviathan .
In
Leviathan he had vehemently assailed the system of the
universities, as originally founded for the support of the papal
against the civil authority, and as still working social
mischief by adherence to the
old learning. The attack was duly noted at Oxford, where under the
Commonwealth a new spirit of scientific activity had begun to stir.
.^ These included debates with John Wallis and Seth Ward that centred on Hobbes's alleged squaring of the circle (Jesseph 1999), debates with John Bramhall about liberty and necessity (continuing some discussions of the 1640s), and debates with Robert Boyle about the experimental physics of the Royal Society (Shapin & Schaffer 1989).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Men have rights to all things in the state of jungle not because there is no any obligation but because “if a man were modest, tractable, and kept his promises in such time and place where no man else should do so should but make [himself] a prey to others…” 15 Hobbes was aware that anarchy would be the outcome of men living in the state of war, because as we have already seen, everyone is at war against everyone.
^ If one prophet deceive another, what certainty is there of knowing the will of God by other way than that of reason?- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ And if it seems strange that Hobbes, guardian of order that he was, prompts such thoughts, remember that, at least where philosophers and lawyers were concerned, he was also a virulent anti-professional.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ De Corpore was published in 1655, and provides Hobbes's main statements on several topics, such as method and the workings of language.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ By the time of Leviathan and De Corpore , Hobbes was convinced that human beings (including their minds) were entirely material.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
) finally appeared, it was seen how the
thrust had gone home. In the chapter (xx.) of that work where
.^ If Hobbes’s problems are real and his solutions only partly convincing, where will we go?- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ If Hobbes's problems are real and his solutions only partly convincing, where will we go?- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ That a man be willing when others are so too, as for peace, and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contended with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
A strange conclusion this,
and reached by a path not less strange, as was now to be disclosed
by a relentless hand.
.^ So that the whole effect of excommunicating a Christian prince, is no more than he or they that so excommunicate him, depart, and banish themselves out of his dominion.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ His sixth argument is this: if bishops have their jurisdiction de jure divino, that is, immediately from God, they that maintain it should bring some word of God to prove it: but they can bring none.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ They would differ, as I pointed out, earlier, about what that higher guide to interpretation should be.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
Ward was to occupy himself with the philosophical
and physical sections, which he did in leisurely fashion, bringing
out his criticism in the course of next year (
In Th. . Wallis was to confine
himself to the mathematical chapters, and set to work at once with
characteristic energy.
^ Called to God to labor in his vineyard, he has within himself a principle at once of energy and of order, which makes him irresistible both in war and in the struggles of commerce.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ De Corpore was published in 1655, and provides Hobbes's main statements on several topics, such as method and the workings of language.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ By the time of Leviathan and De Corpore , Hobbes was convinced that human beings (including their minds) were entirely material.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ In De Corpore Hobbes first describes the view that reasoning is computation early in chapter one.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ One postscript before returning to Hobbes.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ If we can’t do this, then many of the achievements of human society that involve putting hard work into land (farming, building) or material objects (the crafts, or modern industrial production, still unknown in Hobbes’s time) will be near impossible.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ If we can't do this, then many of the achievements of human society that involve putting hard work into land (farming, building) or material objects (the crafts, or modern industrial production, still unknown in Hobbes's time) will be near impossible.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Other important works include: De Corpore [ On the Body ] (1655), which deals with questions of metaphysics; De Homine [ On Man ] (1657); and Behemoth (published 1682, though written rather earlier), in which Hobbes gives his account of England’s Civil Wars.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Other important works include: De Corpore [ On the Body ] (1655), which deals with questions of metaphysics; De Homine [ On Man ] (1657); and Behemoth (published 1682, though written rather earlier), in which Hobbes gives his account of England's Civil Wars.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1640 he wrote “The Elements of Laws, Natural and Politic;” in 1642 he published De Cive (The Citizen); in 1655 he wrote De Corpore (Concerning the Body); in 1658 he published De Homine (Concerning Man); and later on in France he wrote the famous work called Leviathan .
.^ Hobbes's first notable philosophical works are from around 1640.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ For the first time, privacy becomes not only desirable but attainable.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ If we can't do this, then many of the achievements of human society that involve putting hard work into land (farming, building) or material objects (the crafts, or modern industrial production, still unknown in Hobbes's time) will be near impossible.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Perhaps he just had a good deal of confidence in the ability of the rapidly developing science of the his time to proceed towards a full material explanation of the mind.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ However, the problem with all of Hobbes’s notions about sovereignty is that – on his account – it is not Hobbes the philosopher, nor we the citizens, who decide what counts as the proper nature, scope or exercise of sovereignty.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Besides the discretion of times, places, and persons, necessary to a good fancy, there is required also an often application of his thoughts to their end; that is to say, to some use to be made of them.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ And thus much for the ill condition which man by mere nature is actually placed in; though with a possibility to come out of it, consisting partly in the passions, partly in his reason.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ And thus much for the ill condition, which man by meer Nature is actually placed in; though with a possibility to come out of it, consisting partly in the Passions, partly in his Reason.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
At his
advanced age, however, and with the sense he had of his powers, he
was not likely to be brought to a better mind by so insulting an
opponent. He did indeed, before allowing an English 1 " The
Vit. auct. refers to 1676, a ` Letter to William duke of
Newcastle on the Controversy about Liberty and Necessity, held with
Benjamin Laney, bishop of
Ely.'
.^ Lastly, when in a war, foreign or intestine, the enemies get a final victory, so as, the forces of the Commonwealth keeping the field no longer, there is no further protection of subjects in their loyalty, then is the Commonwealth dissolved, and every man at liberty to protect himself by such courses as his own discretion shall suggest unto him.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Again, the consent of a subject to sovereign power is contained in these words, "I authorise, or take upon me, all his actions"; in which there is no restriction at all of his own former natural liberty: for by allowing him to kill me, I am not bound to kill myself when he commands me.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ In cases where the Soveraign has prescribed no rule, there the Subject hath the liberty to do, or forbeare, according to his own discretion.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
202).
translation of the
De corpore (E.W. i.) to appear in
.^ New Orleans can cause some turnovers, but so could Green Bay -- and we all saw how that turned out.- Postseason Fantasy: Roster analysis, Round 2 - Matthew Lutovsky - Fantasy Source Blitz - Sporting News 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.sportingnews.com [Source type: General]
^ And for these doctrines, men are chiefly beholding to some of those, that making profession of the Lawes, endeavour to make them depend upon their own learning, and not upon the Legislative Power.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We are now trying to release all our eBooks one year in advance of the official release dates, leaving time for better editing.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ These meaningless vocal sounds, “abstract substances,” “separated essence,” and other similar ones, spring from the same fountain (Hobbes 1655, 3.4).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ One universal name is imposed on many things for their similitude in some quality, or other accident: and whereas a proper name bringeth to mind one thing only, universals recall any one of those many.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Nidditch, P.H., 1975, “Foreword”, in J. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975, vii–xxvi.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ The former quality requires a complex set of practical skills (which Machiavelli calls virtu ), hence the saying about his views: there is no virtue in virtu .- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
He did not scruple, in the ardour of conflict, even
to maintain positions that he had resigned in the translation, and
he was not afraid to assume the offensive by a
counter criticism of three of Wallis's works
then published.
.^ Although he sets out nineteen laws of nature, it is the first two that are politically crucial.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Alternatively, I could go into more detail, thus running the risk that I would often be repeating well-known truths.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ When two or more men know of one and the same fact, they are said to be conscious of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ He showed very little interest in the strict scholastic philosophy of the time and took around six years to complete his degree.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In particular, he often speaks of “covenants,” by which he means a contract where one party performs his part of the bargain later than the other.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ For let a space be never so little, that which is moved over a greater space, whereof that little one is part, must first be moved over that.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Languages with more than 50 books: Chinese Dutch English Esperanto Finnish French German Italian Latin Portuguese Spanish Swedish Tagalog .- Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
- Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.gutenberg.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Is it totally arbitrary that this set of phenomena, rather than some other set, ends up being called 'games'?- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ In which, the principal Schools were ordained for the three Professions, that is to say, of the Romane Religion, of the Romane Law, and of the Art of Medicine.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words, Hobbes has an extraordinarily reductive view of human beings, not unlike Machiavelli's they are power hungry, acquisitive, destructive, competitive animals, restrained only by fear and desire for pleasure.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus in talking about ambiguity Hobbes says that “the word faith sometimes signifieth the same with belief; sometimes it signifieth particularly that belief which maketh a Christian; and sometimes it signifieth the keeping of a promise” (Hobbes 1640, 5.7).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ By this means it was that Julius Caesar, who was set up by the people against the senate, having won to himself the affections of his army, made himself master both of senate and people.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ In the making of a Commonwealth every man giveth away the right of defending another, but not of defending himself.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ De Corpore was published in 1655, and provides Hobbes's main statements on several topics, such as method and the workings of language.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
But it was no longer a fight over mathematical questions
only.
.^ After his death Hobbes became almost a kind of English institution.
^ And when the Endeavour is fromward something, it is generally called AVERSION. These words Appetite, and Aversion we have from the Latines; and they both of them signifie the motions, one of approaching, the other of retiring.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words, other than one specific right, the governed now have no way to call the ruler into account (except as the ruler shall determine).- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ But one needs, at least, a fairly complex story about Hobbes's attitudes in order to sustain the view that he was sneakily suggesting that God didn't exist.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Yet, in some respects, the biggest and most dislocating jump we experience is moving from Shakespeare's Tempest in one week to Hobbes's Leviathan in the next.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ What matters, Hobbes says, is that “we remember that vocal sounds of this kind sometimes evoked one thing in the mind, sometimes something else” (Hobbes 1655, 2.9).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Use Of Names Positive And this is all the variety of Names Positive; which are put to mark somewhat which is in Nature, or may be feigned by the mind of man, as Bodies that are, or may be conceived to be; or of bodies, the Properties that are, or may be feigned to be; or Words and Speech.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ For the Schools find in mere appetite to go, or move, no actual motion at all; but because some motion they must acknowledge, they call it metaphorical motion, which is but an absurd speech; for though words may be called metaphorical, bodies and motions cannot.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ For words are wise mens counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the mony of fooles, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other Doctor whatsoever, if but a man.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
357400).
.^ But Hobbes says more than this, and it is this point that makes his argument so powerful.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ For men, as they become at last weary of irregular jostling and hewing one another, and desire with all their hearts to conform themselves into one firm and lasting edifice; so for want both of the art of making fit laws to square their actions by, and also of humility and patience to suffer the rude and cumbersome points of their present greatness to be taken off, they cannot without the help of a very able architect be compiled into any other than a crazy building, such as, hardly lasting out their own time, must assuredly fall upon the heads of their posterity.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ These laws of nature, the sum whereof consisteth in forbidding us to be our own judges, and our own carvers, and in commanding us to accommodate one another; in case they should be observed by some, and not by others, would make the observers but a prey to them that should neglect them; leaving the good, both without defence against the wicked, and also with a charge to assist them: which is against the scope of the said laws, that are made only for the protection and defence of them that keep them.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
The thrusts
were easily and nimbly parried by Wallis in a reply (
Hobbiani
puncti dispunctio, 1657) occupied mainly with the verbal
questions.
.^ All in all, Hobbes conception of justice can help to implement peace and security in areas where there is war.
^ I think the difficulty is that Hobbes did not know how far back into biology he had to go, and clearly evolutionary science was not known in his time.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ But there is a more important theme that emerges from Hobbes's writing, a theme that should speak to us, appeal to us, even if we do not feel anarchy to be either as close or as dangerous as he did.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ But Hobbes is more subtle than this.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ De Homine was published in 1658, completing the plan of the Elements of Philosophy .- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Condensed is when there is in the very same matter less quantity than before; and rarefied, when more.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
So far as the treatise
De homine
(L.W. ii.
.^ The result was the growth of a powerful middle class, more concerned about what Hobbes calls "commodious living" than in traditional community life.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ In fact, for most of us, I suspect, our idea of freedom is derived more from Hobbes than from anyone else.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ It is my claim--and I recognize that at this point it is no more than a claim--that the 'prerequisites,' 'criteria,' and 'fundamental components' are all, in fact, resurrections of the essentialist project under another name.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ And if it seems strange that Hobbes, guardian of order that he was, prompts such thoughts, remember that, at least where philosophers and lawyers were concerned, he was also a virulent anti-professional.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ At the very end of this definitional passage it might have looked as though Hobbes was straying into natural law ('for the Distinction of Right and Wrong').- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ As for the rites of consecration, though they depend for the most part upon the discretion and judgement of the governors of the Church, and not upon the Scriptures; yet those governors are obliged to such direction as the nature of the action itself requireth; as that the ceremonies, words, gestures be both decent and significant, or at least conformable to the action.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
.^ This is not to say that we should ignore Hobbes's ideas on human nature - far from it.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ This is not to say that we should ignore Hobbes’s ideas on human nature – far from it.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Even after the monarchy had been restored in 1660, Hobbes's security was not always certain: powerful religious figures, critical of his writings, made moves in Parliament that apparently led Hobbes to burn some of his papers for fear of prosecution.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
c. vi. § 2), quite misleading.
.^ Hobbes offers a further argument against his opponents' belief in immaterial things in De Corpore , in a passage in which he talks at length about the “gross errors” of philosophers.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ He showed very little interest in the strict scholastic philosophy of the time and took around six years to complete his degree.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
^ THE SECOND PART OF COMMONWEALTH CHAPTER XVII OF THE CAUSES, GENERATION, AND DEFINITION OF A COMMONWEALTH MEN (who naturally love liberty, and dominion over others) accept the restraint of living in Commonwealths only for their own preservation, and a more contented life.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And when the Endeavour is fromward something, it is generally called AVERSION. These words Appetite, and Aversion we have from the Latines; and they both of them signifie the motions, one of approaching, the other of retiring.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
467-471).
a makeshift for the proper transition required in the system
from questions of
.^ Thus far concerning the Nature of Man, and the constitution and properties of a Body Politic.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The true and perspicuous explication of the Elements of Laws, Natural and Politic, which is my present scope, dependeth upon the knowledge of what is human nature, what is a body politic, and what it is we call a law.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ For from corporal penalties nature hath bodies politic.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ One postscript before returning to Hobbes.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ Intensely disputatious, Hobbes repeatedly embroiled himself in prolonged arguments with clerics, mathematicians, scientists and philosophers – sometimes to the cost of his intellectual reputation.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The laws of nature therefore need not any publishing nor proclamation; as being contained in this one sentence, approved by all the world, Do not that to another which thou thinkest unreasonable to be done by another to thyself.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ But this is certain; by how much one man has more experience of things past, than another; by so much also he is more Prudent, and his expectations the seldomer faile him.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ What then can be the meaning of this place, other than that he went of himself into the wilderness; and that this carrying of him up and down, from the wilderness to the city, and from thence into a mountain, was a vision?- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
^ And From Conscience Of Deserving To Be Hated To have done more hurt to a man, than he can, or is willing to expiate, enclineth the doer to hate the sufferer.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ But if other men will not lay down their right, as well as he, then there is no reason for anyone to divest himself of his: for that were to expose himself to prey, which no man is bound to, rather than to dispose himself to peace.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Ignorance of the law of nature excuseth no man, because every man that hath attained to the use of reason is supposed to know he ought not to do to another what he would not have done to himself.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ To which I answer, that the last of these Powers, is no more than the Power, or rather Command to Teach.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Other important works include: De Corpore [ On the Body ] (1655), which deals with questions of metaphysics; De Homine [ On Man ] (1657); and Behemoth (published 1682, though written rather earlier), in which Hobbes gives his account of England's Civil Wars.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Other important works include: De Corpore [ On the Body ] (1655), which deals with questions of metaphysics; De Homine [ On Man ] (1657); and Behemoth (published 1682, though written rather earlier), in which Hobbes gives his account of England’s Civil Wars.- Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ De Corpore was published in 1655, and provides Hobbes's main statements on several topics, such as method and the workings of language.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Pentateuch Not Written By Moses And first, for the Pentateuch, it is not argument enough that they were written by Moses, because they are called the five Books of Moses; no more than these titles, The Book of Joshua, the Book of Judges, The Book of Ruth, and the Books of the Kings, are arguments sufficient to prove, that they were written by Joshua, by the Judges, by Ruth, and by the Kings.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Or as if a body were made without any quantity at all, and that afterwards more or less were put into it, according as it is intended the body should be more or less dense.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
^ And therefore none but kings can put into their titles, a mark of their submission to God only, Dei gratia Rex, etc.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
Wallis,
however, would not take the bait.
.^ Another possible reading, and one that I will try to explain more fully later, is that Hobbes is doing something a little more sophisticated.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Aubrey reports that the two “mutually respected one another”, but also that Hobbes thought that Descartes would have been better off sticking to geometry (Aubrey 1696, 1.367).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Other critics, however, have thought that Hobbes in fact denied the existence of God.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ God "called" us to carry out certain work in the world, and it was our duty, as a preparation for the grace which we might or might not receive, to work at that "calling" with all the energies we could command.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ But Hobbes is more subtle than this.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ To say He hath spoken in a dream is no more than to say a man dreamed that God spake; which is no argument.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The connections seem to amount to no more than that though, so it's at least rather over-dramatic to say that Hobbes was “prophetically launching Artificial Intelligence” (Haugeland 1985, 23).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
He presently republished it (in modified
form), with his remarks, at the end of a new Latin dialogue which
he had meanwhile written in defence of another part of his
philosophical doctrine. This was the
Dialogus physicus, sive De
natura aaris (L.W. iv.
.^ These included debates with John Wallis and Seth Ward that centred on Hobbes's alleged squaring of the circle (Jesseph 1999), debates with John Bramhall about liberty and necessity (continuing some discussions of the 1640s), and debates with Robert Boyle about the experimental physics of the Royal Society (Shapin & Schaffer 1989).- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ And by this means, as often as there is any repugnancy between the political designs of the Pope and other Christian princes, as there is very often, there ariseth such a mist amongst their subjects, that they know not a stranger that thrusteth himself into the throne of their lawful prince, from him whom they had themselves placed there; and, in this darkness of mind, are made to fight one against another, without discerning their enemies from their friends, under the conduct of another man's ambition.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
^ And by this means, as often as there is any repugnancy between the Politicall designes of the Pope, and other Christian Princes, as there is very often, there ariseth such a Mist amongst their Subjects, that they know not a stranger that thrusteth himself into the throne of their lawfull Prince, from him whom they had themselves placed there; and in this Darknesse of mind, are made to fight one against another, without discerning their enemies from their friends, under the conduct of another mans ambition.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And if it seems strange that Hobbes, guardian of order that he was, prompts such thoughts, remember that, at least where philosophers and lawyers were concerned, he was also a virulent anti-professional.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ But supposing that these of mine are not such principles of reason; yet I am sure they are principles from authority of Scripture, as I shall make it appear when I shall come to speak of the kingdom of God, administered by Moses, over the Jews, His peculiar people by covenant.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes's only real point seems to be that there should be a "head" that decides most of the important things that the "body" does.- Thomas Hobbes -- Moral and Politcal Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ But to this he hath replied that the Christians of old deposed not Nero, nor Dioclesian, nor Julian, nor Valens, an Arian, for this cause only, that they wanted temporal forces.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ And thus much concerning the time of the writing of the books of the Old Testament.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ But to this he hath replyed, that the Christians of old, deposed not Nero, nor Diocletian, nor Julian, nor Valens an Arrian, for this cause onely, that they wanted Temporall forces.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Is there something that they would help him to do that Hobbes's theory, the lawyer's rule of thumb, or a first-year class in political theory would not do as well, or better?- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Or alternatively put, Hobbes addressed himself to this question: How can we harness the wealth and power generated by the Puritan spirit (which whether we like it or not is a modern fact of life), without leading to the political anarchy inherent in all Protestantism (of the sort he had seen in the English Civil War and throughout Europe)?- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ The Project Gutenberg EBook of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes Copyright laws are changing all over the world.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
The revenge he
took was crushing.
.^ The Ninth, Against Pride The question who is the better man, has no place in the condition of meer Nature; where, (as has been shewn before,) all men are equall.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ To which I can give no other kind of answer but that which is given to those that urge the Scripture in like manner against the opinion of the motion of the earth.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Lastly, when the question is propounded of our belief; because some are moved to believe for one, and others for other reasons, there can be rendered no one general answer for them all.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ By this means it was that Julius Caesar, who was set up by the people against the senate, having won to himself the affections of his army, made himself master both of senate and people.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus even in Leviathan , with its focus on political and religious matters, Hobbes starts with a story about the workings of the mind.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ It is also clear, however, that the dangers of a tyrannical sovereign for Hobbes are considerable more attractive than what will occur if there is no state or if the state falls apart.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ It has taken a long time, but it seems that even orthodox legal theorists are coming to agree with Hobbes that 'reason' alone cannot do the trick.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Secondly, Hobbes checks the power of the state in one important respect: it cannot demand your life, and if it does, for any reason, you are entitled to fight back.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ For they do nothing else, that will have every of their passions, as it comes to bear sway in them, to be taken for right reason, and that in their own controversies: bewraying their want of right reason by the claim they lay to it.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
297-384), in 1662.3 1 L.W. iv.
.^ Leviathan, with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 , Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ However, Hobbes does seem in his Answer to Bishop Bramhall and the Appendix to the Latin edition of Leviathan to believe this strange view sincerely.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ He also published a Latin edition of Leviathan in 1668, in which there were some significant changes and additions relating to controversial topics, such as his treatments of the Trinity and the nature of God.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
In the part omitted, at p. 154 of the original edition,
Hobbes refers to his first introduction to Euclid, in a way that
confirms the story in Aubrey quoted in an earlier
paragraph.
.^ But as we have no imagination, whereof we have not formerly had sense, in whole or in parts; so we have no transition from one imagination to another, whereof we never had the like before in our senses.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ But as wee have no Imagination, whereof we have not formerly had Sense, in whole, or in parts; so we have no Transition from one Imagination to another, whereof we never had the like before in our Senses.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The original of them all is that which we call sense, (for there is no conception in a man's mind which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense).- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Besides this Book of the Law, there was no other Book, from the time of Moses, till after the Captivity, received amongst the Jews for the Law of God.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There are Christians in the dominions of several princes and states, but every one of them is subject to that Commonwealth whereof he is himself a member, and consequently cannot be subject to the commands of any other person.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Besides this Book of the Law, there was no other book, from the time of Moses till after the Captivity, received amongst the Jews for the law of God.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ As for the first division of law into divine, natural, and civil, the first two branches are one and the same law.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The title of this essay is taken from a book (1) that describes some of the most remarkable examples of the manufacturing of tradition--the creation of myths that are then projected back into history.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ For example: they suppose a multitude of men to have agreed upon certain articles (which they presently call laws), declaring how they will be governed; and that done to agree farther upon some man, or number of men to see the same articles performed, and put in execution.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ De Corpore was published in 1655, and provides Hobbes's main statements on several topics, such as method and the workings of language.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ De Cive (1642) was Hobbes's first published book of political philosophy.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes's first notable philosophical works are from around 1640.- Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ What was the reason, when they all beleeved the Scripture, that they did not all beleeve alike; but that some approved, others disapproved the Interpretation of St. Paul that cited them; and every one Interpreted them to himself?- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And this did Moses himself write, and deliver to the Priests and Elders of Israel, to be read every seventh year to all Israel, at their assembling in the feast of Tabernacles.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ What was the reason, when they all believed the Scripture, that they did not all believe alike, but that some approved, others disapproved, the interpretation of St. Paul that cited them, and every one interpreted them to himself?- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Thomas Hobbes considered manmade justice in his third law of nature.
^ Neither Thomas Hobbes nor his typesetters seem to have had many inhibitions about spelling and punctuation.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Temple; that he blessed the People; and that he himselfe in person made that excellent prayer, used in the Consecrations of all Churches, and houses of Prayer; which is another great mark of Supremacy in Religion.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
409-440).
.^ But that right of all men to all things, is in effect no better than if no man had right to any thing.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ As for Example, there was a time, when in England a man might enter in to his own Land, (and dispossesse such as wrongfully possessed it) by force.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ For to know, who knowes the Rules almost of any Art, is a great degree of the knowledge of the same Art; because no man can be assured of the truth of anothers Rules, but he that is first taught to understand them.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Thus ended the
second bout.
.^ He showed very little interest in the strict scholastic philosophy of the time and took around six years to complete his degree.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Nor did the Church of Rome ever establish this Transubstantiation, till the time of Innocent the third; which was not above 500.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I think the difficulty is that Hobbes did not know how far back into biology he had to go, and clearly evolutionary science was not known in his time.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ It is not enough for a man to labour for the maintenance of his life; but also to fight, if need be, for the securing of his labour.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ It is not enough, for a man to labour for the maintenance of his life; but also to fight, (if need be,) for the securing of his labour.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Arminians, &c., as in old time the like made Paulists, Apollonians, and Cephasians, must needs be such, as a man needeth not for the holding thereof deny obedience to his superiors.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
The
first piece, published in 1666,
De principiis et ratiocinatione
geometrarum (L.W. iv.
.^ But this is no Body Politique, there being no Common Representative to oblige them to any other Law, than that which is common to all other subjects.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Thirdly, that the Resolutions of a Monarch, are subject to no other Inconstancy, than that of Humane Nature; but in Assemblies, besides that of Nature, there ariseth an Inconstancy from the Number.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Secondly, that those Philosophers, who sayd the World, or the Soule of the World was God, spake unworthily of him; and denyed his Existence: For by God, is understood the cause of the World; and to say the World is God, is to say there is no cause of it, that is, no God.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Wallis replied shortly in the
Philosophical Transactions (August 1666).
.^ And when the Son of a woman of Israel had blasphemed God, they that heard it, did not kill him, but brought him before Moses, who put him under custody, till God should give Sentence against him; as appears, Levit.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And when a great number of their own authority flock together in any nation, they usually give them the name of the whole nation.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Equally, they who take from God the care of mankind, take from Him his honour.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
485-522).
.^ For as he, that is driven to contradict an assertion by him before maintained, is said to be reduced to an absurdity; so he that through passion doth, or omitteth that which before by covenant he promised not to do, or not to omit, is said to commit injustice.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Otherwise, whensoever a man lawfully promiseth, he unlawfully breaketh: But when the Soveraign, who is the Actor, acquitteth him, then he is acquitted by him that exorted the promise, as by the Author of such absolution.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This was a Law that designed who were to be the Executioners; but not that any one should throw a Stone at him before Conviction and Sentence, where the Congregation was Judge.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
In 1671 he worked up his propositions over again in
Rosetum'geometricum (L. W. v. 1-50), as a fragrant
offering to the geometrical reader, appending a criticism
(
Censura brevis, pp.
.^ Hobbes's is the first doctrine that necessarily and unmistakably points to a thoroughly 'enlightened', i.e., a-religious or atheistic society as the solution of the social or political problem.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ The first important point to notice here is the denial of the classical assumption that civil society exists prior to the individual.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ Splashing of Water Drops on Solid and Wetted Surfaces: Hydrodynamics and Charge Separation ( Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 269, 555-585, 1971) .
429-448).
.^ Now Jesus Christ hath satisfied for the sins of all that believe in him, and therefore recovered to all believers that eternal life which was lost by the sin of Adam.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ And therefore, where many sorts of worship be allowed, proceeding from the different religions of private men, it cannot be said there is any public worship, nor that the Commonwealth is of any religion at all.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ If we are only now beginning to see the connections between a theory of knowledge, a theory of interpretation, a theory of judicial review, and the legitimacy of the state, we cannot blame Hobbes.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ But a man may here object that the condition of subjects is very miserable, as being obnoxious to the lusts and other irregular passions of him or them that have so unlimited a power in their hands.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
Wallis replied in the
Transactions, and
then finally held his hand. Hobbes's energy was not yet exhausted.
In 1674, at the age of eighty-six, he published his
Principia
et problemata aliquot
geometrica, ante desperata nunc breviter explicate et demonstrate
(L. W. v. 150-214), containing in the chapters dealing with
questions of principle not a few striking observations, which ought
not to be overlooked in the study of his philosophy.
.^ CHAPTER VII OF THE ENDS OR RESOLUTIONS OF DISCOURSE Of all Discourse, governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End, either by attaining, or by giving over.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can give no other proof of being wise, take great delight to shew what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ From hence it followeth that one Church cannot be excommunicated by another: for either they have equal power to excommunicate each other, in which case excommunication is not discipline, nor an act of authority, but schism, and dissolution of charity; or one is so subordinate to the other as that they both have but one voice, and then they be but one Church; and the part excommunicated is no more a Church, but a dissolute number of individual persons.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Secondly, Hobbes checks the power of the state in one important respect: it cannot demand your life, and if it does, for any reason, you are entitled to fight back.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ The other is, when imagining anything whatsoever, we seek all the possible effects that can by it be produced; that is to say, we imagine what we can do with it when we have it.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ If one prophet deceive another, what certainty is there of knowing the will of God by other way than that of reason?- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ What was the reason, when they all beleeved the Scripture, that they did not all beleeve alike; but that some approved, others disapproved the Interpretation of St. Paul that cited them; and every one Interpreted them to himself?- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
From
the time of the Restoration he acquired a new prominence in the
public eye.
.^ The Savages of America, are not without some good Morall Sentences; also they have a little Arithmetick, to adde, and divide in Numbers not too great: but they are not therefore Philosophers.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Now the science of Vertue and Vice, is Morall Philosophie; and therfore the true Doctrine of the Lawes of Nature, is the true Morall Philosophie.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Seeing then the Acts of Councell of the Apostles, were then no Laws, but Councells; much lesse are Laws the Acts of any other Doctors, or Councells since, if assembled without the Authority of the Civill Soveraign.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Two or three days after Charles's arrival in London, Hobbes drew in
the street the notice of his former pupil, and was at once received
into favour.
.^ That which the high priest did to Athaliah was not done in his own right, but in the right of the young King Joash, her son: But Solomon in his own right deposed the high priest Abiathar, and set up another in his place.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
^ As it was necessary that a man should not retain his right to every thing, so also was it, that he should retain his right to some things: to his own body (for example) the right of defending, whereof he could not transfer.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ That which the High Priest did to Athaliah, was not done in his own right, but in the right of the young King Joash her Son: But Solomon in his own right deposed the High Priest Abiathar, and set up another in his place.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Hobbes was faced with the idea that we should defer to the interpretation of the professional community of lawyers and he did not like it.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ And this they well knew of old, who called that Nomos (that is to say, distribution), which we call law; and defined justice by distributing to every man his own.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ So, if the Sovereign comes along and says "kill yourself", you can refuse because of your Right of Nature to seek your own preservation.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Of course, Hobbes wants deference to the sovereign, but he does not seem to imagine that the sovereign's will can always be discovered, or even that it always exists.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ I'm not sure about your claims; I've always followed Kinch Hoekstra's argument that might cannot, as it were, create a right even in Hobbes (for the Leviathan as such to be created).- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
closet.
.^ These Articles, are they, which otherwise are called the Lawes of Nature: whereof I shall speak more particularly, in the two following Chapters.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Nature it selfe cannot erre: and as men abound in copiousnesse of language; so they become more wise, or more mad than ordinary.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ What makes Hobbes a truly original thinkers and a very important father of the modern state is how he moves from these assumptions about human nature to an understanding of how the modern state really works (or should work).- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ Now Jesus Christ hath satisfied for the sins of all that believe in him, and therefore recovered to all believers that eternal life which was lost by the sin of Adam.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes, who was born in 1588, was a young man aged 22 at the time of the writing of the Tempest , but if he knew the play, he was obviously unwilling to attend at all to its vision of the world when he came to write the Leviathan .- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes go on specifically to state that the sovereign power can be acquired by forcing others to submit or ‘when men agree amongst themselves, to submit to some Man, or Assembly of men, voluntarily, on confidence to be protected by him against all others.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ And the cause of it being the want of leisure from procuring the necessities of life, and defending themselves against their neighbours, it was impossible, till the erecting of great Commonwealths, it should be otherwise.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
.^ Temple; that he blessed the People; and that he himselfe in person made that excellent prayer, used in the Consecrations of all Churches, and houses of Prayer; which is another great mark of Supremacy in Religion.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And by these, the common people were the less apt to mutiny against their governors.- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And generally all actions which men doe in Common-wealths, for Feare of the law, or actions, which the doers had Liberty to omit.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
On the 17th of October it was ordered that the
committee to which the bill was referred " should be empowered to
receive information touching such books as tend to atheism,
blasphemy and profaneness,
or against the essence and attributes of God, and in particular the
book published in the name of one White, 1 and the book of Mr
Hobbes called the
Leviathan, and to report the matter with
their opinion to the House." Hobbes, then verging upon eighty, was
terrified at the prospect of being treated as a heretic, and
proceeded to burn such of his papers as he thought might
compromise him.
.^ That which totally excuseth a fact, and takes away from it the nature of a crime, can be none but that which, at the same time, taketh away the obligation of the law.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ At the very end of this definitional passage it might have looked as though Hobbes was straying into natural law ('for the Distinction of Right and Wrong').- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ As for the first division of law into divine, natural, and civil, the first two branches are one and the same law.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Vulgar Latine hath it, Regnum Sacerdotale, to which agreeth the Translation of that place (1 Pet.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
), included with the general collection of his works published
at Amsterdam in 1668. In this appendix, as also in the
posthumous tract,
published in 1680,
An Historical Narration concerning Heresy
and the Punishment thereof (E.W. iv.
.^ But this is no Body Politique, there being no Common Representative to oblige them to any other Law, than that which is common to all other subjects.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The old certainties of king and pope have become the source of civil wars, families are killing each other over doctrinal disputes, and there is no coordinating certainty or agreement any more.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ But where there is no Punishment at all determined by the Law, there whatsoever is inflicted, hath the nature of Punishment.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ By considering these two problems, Hobbes assumed a materialistic view of human nature, in which human behaviour could be explained simply in terms of bodies in motion.
^ That is Wittgenstein talking, but it could just as well be Hobbes, telling us that the only thing shared by all the phenomena grouped under a single name is the name itself.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Second, Hobbes was not only critical of scholastic method because he thought its reliance on essence was 'a mistake,' he thought the scholastic essences doctrine could have a powerful and malevolent political effect.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ For how admirable soever any work be, the Admiration consisteth not in that it could be done, because men naturally beleeve the Almighty can doe all things, but because he does it at the Prayer, or Word of a man.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ For how admirable soever any work be, the admiration consisteth not in that could be done, because men naturally believe the Almighty can do all things, but because He does it at the prayer or word of a man.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ So the private space could be enlarged to include freedom of speech and freedom of public worship (things which Hobbes would not permit because he sensed that they were too socially disruptive).- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
.^ And for the manner of God's worship, there was never doubt made but that the high priest, till the time of Saul, had the supreme authority.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ This was the law which Moses commanded the kings of Israel should keep a copy of:*(5) and this is the law which, having been long time lost, was found again in the Temple in the time of Josiah, and by his authority received for the law of God.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ But when a covenant is made, then to break it is unjust and the definition of injustice is no other than the not performance of covenant.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ In fact he spends a large part of the Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England (144) elaborating on his belief that neither the professional community of lawyers nor their 'product,' the artificial reason of the common law, is capable of resolving problems of interpretation.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Gray, supra note 45, at xi, xxxiii (interpreting A Dialogue Between a Philosopher & a Student of the Common Laws of England, supra note 20, and Hale's Reflections by the Lrd.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ If the Soveraign of one Common-wealth, subdue a people that have lived under other written Lawes, and afterwards govern them by the same Lawes, by which they were governed before; yet those Lawes are the Civill Lawes of the Victor, and not of the Vanquished Common-wealth, For the Legislator is he, not by whose authority the Lawes were first made, but by whose authority they now continue to be Lawes.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
1-160), a trenchant criticism of the
constitutional theory of English government as upheld by
Coke.
.^ If they be not, what others are so, besides the law of nature?- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Aubrey thought that was the case: 'But one may say of him, as one says of Jos.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ If they be not, what others are so, besides the Law of Nature?- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
White (who died
1676) and Hobbes were friends.
2 E.W. vi.
.^ For an unlearned man that is in the power of an idolatrous king or state, if commanded on pain of death to worship before an idol, he detesteth the idol in his heart: he doth well; though if he had the fortitude to suffer death, rather than worship it, he should do better.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
view of ecclesiastical encroachment on the civil power; the
quaint verses, disposed in his now favourite dialogue-form, were
first published, nine years after his death, under the title
Historia ecclesiastics (L.W. v. 341-408), with a preface
by
Thomas
Rymer.
.^ It has taken a long time, but it seems that even orthodox legal theorists are coming to agree with Hobbes that 'reason' alone cannot do the trick.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ For if it were by their authority he took that yoke upon him, and not by their persuasion, then by the same authority he might cast it off; but this is unlawful.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ I'm not sure about your claims; I've always followed Kinch Hoekstra's argument that might cannot, as it were, create a right even in Hobbes (for the Leviathan as such to be created).- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
In 1669 an unworthy follower -
Daniel Scargil by name, a
fellow of
Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge - had to recant publicly and confess
that his evil life had been the result of Hobbist doctrines.
.^ "Of these men that have companyed with us, all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the Baptisme of John unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a Witnesse with us of his Resurrection:" where, by this word Must, is implyed a necessary property of an Apostle, to have companyed with the first and prime Apostles in the time that our Saviour manifested himself in the flesh.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ At the age of 84 Hobbes wrote his autobiography in Latin verse and at 86 he published a translation of the Illiad and Odyssey .
^ But, it is (saith hee) the same danger, to choose one that is not a Christian, for King, and not to depose him, when hee is chosen.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Auct. pp. xlvii.-l.),
to which Fell replied by adding to the translation when it appeared
a note full of the grossest insults. And, amid all his troubles,
Hobbes was not without his consolations.
.^ For not only they have all their natural changes, but the change of any one man be enough, with eloquence and reputation, or by solicitation and faction, to make that law to-day, which another by the very same means, shall abrogate to-morrow.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ And this they well knew of old, who called that Nomos (that is to say, distribution), which we call law; and defined justice by distributing to every man his own.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ And first, concerning an Elective King, whose power is limited to his life, as it is in many places of Christendome at this day; or to certaine Yeares or Moneths, as the Dictators power amongst the Romans; If he have Right to appoint his Successor, he is no more Elective but Hereditary.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Among these was the grand-duke of Tuscany
(Ferdinand II.), who took away some works and a portrait to adorn
the Medicean library.
His pastimes in the latest years were as singular as his
labours.
.^ At the age of 84 Hobbes wrote his autobiography in Latin verse and at 86 he published a translation of the Illiad and Odyssey .
At eighty-five, in the year
1673, he sent forth a translation of four books of the
Odyssey (ix.-xii.) in rugged but not seldom happily turned
.^ On the Sublime (English) (as Translator) Stories from the Odyssey (English) (as Author) Stories from Thucydides (English) (as Author) Havens, Munson Aldrich .- Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
- Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.gutenberg.net [Source type: Original source]
), prefaced by a
lively dissertation
.^ This, of course, was a central concern of Plato'sthe old question about power corruptingand for Plato, as for Aristotle, the best defense was the education in virtue given to the rulers.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
After 1675, he passed his
time at his patron's seats in Derbyshire, occupied to the last with
intellectual work in the early morning and in the afternoon hours,
which it had long been his habit to devote to thinking and to
writing. Even as late as August 1679 he was promising his publisher
" somewhat to print in English." The end came very soon afterwards.
A suppression of urine in October, in spite of which he insisted
upon being conveyed with the family from Chatsworth to Hardwick
Hall towards the end of November, was followed by a paralytic
stroke, under which he sank on the 4th of December, in his
ninety-second year.
.^ Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 Hobbes gravestone in Ault Hucknall church, Derbyshire, England .- Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan - 'Squashed Philosophers' Abridged Edition 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.btinternet.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And though at that time the patriarchs and many other faithful men were dead, yet as it is in the text, they "lived to God"; that is, they were written in the Book of Life with them that were absolved of their sins, and ordained to life eternal at the resurrection.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ For it were a strange interpretation to say Moses spake of his own sepulchre (though by prophecy), that it was not found to that day wherein he was yet living.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Besides the discretion of times, places, and persons, necessary to a good fancy, there is required also an often application of his thoughts to their end; that is to say, to some use to be made of them.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
His favourite exercise was
tennis, which he played regularly even after the
age of
haracter- seventy. Socially he was genial and
courteous, though in argument he occasionally lost his
temper. As a friend he was
generous and loyal. Intellectually bold in the extreme, he was
curiously timid in ordinary life, and is said to ha`e had a horror
of ghosts.
.^ That a man be willing when others are so too, as for peace, and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contended with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
^ So when a man compoundeth the image of his own person, with the image of the actions of an other man; as when a man imagins himselfe a Hercules, or an Alexander, (which happeneth often to them that are much taken with reading of Romants) it is a compound imagination, and properly but a Fiction of the mind.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Alternatively, I could go into more detail, thus running the risk that I would often be repeating well-known truths.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
He appears to
have had an illegitimate daughter for whom he made generous
provision.
.^ The two former, having given them caution against danger from him, the latter gives them caution against danger from others.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ We are therefore to consider what other ground there was of their obligation to obey him.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ For two men conspiring, one to seem lame, the other to cure him with a charme, will deceive many: but many conspiring, one to seem lame, another so to cure him, and all the rest to bear witnesse; will deceive many more.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And therefore, where many sorts of worship be allowed, proceeding from the different religions of private men, it cannot be said there is any public worship, nor that the Commonwealth is of any religion at all.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ On the other hand, it shies away from political theories that venture to suggest that you cannot give a purely conceptual explanation of the obligation to obey law.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ But of them, to whom neither God the Father, nor our Saviour ever spake, it cannot be said, that the Person whom they beleeved, was God.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ But this is true also, that for whatsoever a dispensation is due for the necessity, for the same there needs no dispensation when there is no law that forbids it.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
^ But because in sense, to one and the same thing perceived, sometimes one thing, sometimes another succeedeth, it comes to passe in time, that in the Imagining of any thing, there is no certainty what we shall Imagine next; Onely this is certain, it shall be something that succeeded the same before, at one time or another.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Lastly, when the question is propounded of our Beleefe; because some are moved to beleeve for one, and others for other reasons, there can be rendred no one generall answer for them all.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ In other words, they fail to recognize that in 'natural science' signification depends on 'the will of the writer,' in common conversation on 'vulgar use,' and in theology on 'the sense that [words] carry in the Scripture.'- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ But it is in another sense; for there it signifieth as much as "books written or placed after his natural philosophy": but the Schools take them for books of supernatural philosophy: for the word metaphysics will bear both these senses.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
^ It is manifest therefore that the Right which the Common-wealth (that is, he, or they that represent it) hath to Punish, is not grounded on any concession, or gift of the Subjects.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Having declared what I mean by the word conception, and other words equivalent thereunto, I come to the conceptions themselves, to show their difference, their causes, and the manner of their production as far as is necessary for this place.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ For there are very few so foolish, that had not rather governe themselves, than be governed by others: Nor when the wise in their own conceit, contend by force, with them who distrust their owne wisdome, do they alwaies, or often, or almost at any time, get the Victory.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And it is incident most to them that are conscious of the fewest abilities in themselves; who are forced to keep themselves in their own favour by observing the imperfections of other men.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ But Hobbes is more subtle than this.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ For to accuse requires less eloquence (such is man's nature) than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ But Hobbes, like Marx and Feuerbach, is critical of the pretense that a desired quality is somehow inherently present in an external object.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ In this state of nature man has no obligation to respect others.
^ Thomas Hobbes exaggerated in using this approach in various forms of knowledge such as his study of physical nature, the nature of man and the nature of human society.
^ That a man be willing when others are so too, as for peace, and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contended with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
.^ Secondly, that those Philosophers, who sayd the World, or the Soule of the World was God, spake unworthily of him; and denyed his Existence: For by God, is understood the cause of the World; and to say the World is God, is to say there is no cause of it, that is, no God.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Hobbes's answer was brilliant, logically ruthless, for a long time extremely unpopular (especially among those dreaming of a restoration of the old order or those who found his vision of human beings morally unacceptable), but ultimately extraordinarily influential in creating the modern liberal state.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ Let them be silenced by the laws of those to whom the teachers of them are subject; that is, by the laws civil: for disobedience may lawfully be punished in them that against the laws teach even true philosophy.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
The effects of
his philosophical endeavour may be traced on a variety of lines.
Upon every subject that came within the sweep of his system, except
mathematics and physics, his thoughts have been productive of
thought.
.^ Men may as well ask why Christ, that could have given to all men faith, piety, and all manner of moral virtues, gave it to some only, and not to all: and why he left the search of natural causes and sciences to the natural reason and industry of men, and did not reveal it to all, or any man supernaturally; and many other such questions, of which nevertheless there may be alleged probable and pious reasons.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
^ For to accuse requires less eloquence (such is man's nature) than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ By concoction, I understand the reducing of all commodities which are not presently consumed, but reserved for nourishment in time to come, to something of equal value, and withal so portable as not to hinder the motion of men from place to place; to the end a man may have in what place soever such nourishment as the place affordeth.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Name Of Pontifex It is also from the Roman Heathen, that the Popes have received the name, and power of PONTIFEX MAXIMUS. This was the name of him that in the ancient Common-wealth of Rome, had the Supreme Authority under the Senate and People, of regulating all Ceremonies, and Doctrines concerning their Religion: And when Augustus Caesar changed the State into a Monarchy, he took to himselfe no more but this office, and that of Tribune of the People, (than is to say, the Supreme Power both in State, and Religion;) and the succeeding Emperors enjoyed the same.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But because this right could not be obtained by force, it concerned the safety of every one, laying by that right, to set up men, with sovereign authority, by common consent, to rule and defend them: whereas if there had been any man of power irresistible, there had been no reason why he should not by that power have ruled and defended both himself and them, according to his own discretion.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Nor To Dispute The Soveraign Power: Thirdly, in consequence to this, they ought to be informed, how great fault it is, to speak evill of the Soveraign Representative, (whether One man, or an Assembly of men;) or to argue and dispute his Power, or any way to use his Name irreverently, whereby he may be brought into Contempt with his People, and their Obedience (in which the safety of the Common-wealth consisteth) slackened.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ But Hobbes is more subtle than this.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Yet again Hobbes is turned into Locke through misreadings of his political thought.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ More examples of vain philosophy, brought into religion by the doctors of School divinity, might be produced; but other men may if they please observe them of themselves.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The Fourth Part 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC ebooks.gutenberg.us [Source type: Original source]
For his ethical theories see
Ethics.
Sufficient information is given in the
Vitae Hobbianae
auctarium (L.
W. i. p. lxv. ff.) concerning the
frequent early editions of
.^ In his lifetime Hobbes wrote many works.
^ Secondly, that those Philosophers, who sayd the World, or the Soule of the World was God, spake unworthily of him; and denyed his Existence: For by God, is understood the cause of the World; and to say the World is God, is to say there is no cause of it, that is, no God.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Those that concern the Commonwealth only may without breach of equity be pardoned; for every man may pardon what is done against himself, according to his own discretion.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
In the 18th century, after Clarke's
Boyle
Lectures of 1704-1705, the opposition was less express.
.^ One is their Writt, or Letters from the Soveraign: the other is the Law of the Common-wealth.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1640 he wrote “The Elements of Laws, Natural and Politic;” in 1642 he published De Cive (The Citizen); in 1655 he wrote De Corpore (Concerning the Body); in 1658 he published De Homine (Concerning Man); and later on in France he wrote the famous work called Leviathan .
^ Less than capital are stripes, wounds, chains, and any other corporal pain not in its own nature mortal.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
Molesworth's
edition (1839-1845), dedicated to Grote, has been referred to in a
former note.
.^ What I'd like to do before looking at Hobbes's text is to explore the first point I mentioned: the transformation of social attitudes towards money which created the social context for Hobbes's book.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ They are the translation of the title of the sixth chapter of Suarez's first book, Of the Concourse, Motion, and Help of God.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ This they have observed, that instead of a sacerdotal kingdom, translate, a kingdom of priests: for they may as well translate a royal priesthood, as it is in St. Peter, into a priesthood of kings.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
); a translation of
the
De cive by J. H. v. Kirchmann - T.
Hobbes:
Abhandlung fiber den Burger, &c. (Leipzig, 1873).
Important later editions are those of
Ferdinand Tonnies,
Behemoth (1889), on which see Croom Robertson's
Philosophical Remains (1894), p. 45 1;
Elements of
Law (1889).
Biographical and Critical Works
.^ Is there something that they would help him to do that Hobbes's theory, the lawyer's rule of thumb, or a first-year class in political theory would not do as well, or better?- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Underneath the work of Harvey, Hobbes, Descartes, and Newton (and many others) is clearly a desire to seek for an understanding of nature and the religious life in something other than traditional interpretations of scripture and established religious authority.- On Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC records.viu.ca [Source type: Original source]
^ So the answers to the first two questions I posed--what theory of language Hobbes puts in place of essentialism and what exactly Hobbes is doing, when he himself defines law--are rather complicated.- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
vita (pp. xiii.-xxi.), written by Hobbes himself,
or (as also reported) by T. Rymer, at his dictation; (2)
Vitae
Hobbianae auctarium (pp. xxii.-lxxx.), turned into Latin from
Aubrey's English; (3)
T. H. Malmesb. vita carmine expressa (pp. lxxxi.- xcix.),
written by Hobbes at the age of eighty-four (first published by
itself in 1680).
.^ For if, as in Adam, all die, that is, have forfeited Paradise and eternal life on earth, even so in Christ all shall be made alive; then all men shall be made to live on earth; for else the comparison were not proper.- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]
^ For if as in Adam, all die, that is, have forfeited Paradise, and Eternall Life on Earth; even so in Christ all shall be made alive; then all men shall be made to live on Earth; for else the comparison were not proper.- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
(vol. ii. pt. ii. pp.
.^ The English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, an original thinker but not a lawyer nor even primarily interested in legal philosophy, came close to the imperative conception when he said: 'Law properly is the word of him that by right hath command over others.'- Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism by James Boyle 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.law.duke.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ And do seriously contend, that besides Peter and John, and all the rest of the men that are, have been, or shall be in the world, there is yet somewhat else that we call man, (viz.- Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.constitution.org [Source type: Original source]
^ "As by the offence of one, Judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousnesse of one, the free gift came upon all men to Justification of Life."- Leviathan / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
See also F. Tunnies,
Hobbes Leben and
Lehre (1896),
Hobbes-Analekten (1904 foil.); G. Zart,
Einfluss der englischen Philosophie seit Bacon auf die deutsche
Philosophie des 18ten Jahrh. (Berlin, 1881); G. Brandt,
Thomas Hobbes: Grundlinien seiner Philosophie (1895); G.
Lyon,
La Philos. de . (1893); J. M. Robertson,
Pioneer Humanists (1907);
J. Rickaby,
Free Will and Four English Philosophers
(1906), pp.
^ Wikipedia Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha (English) (as Author) Hobbes, John Oliver, 1867-1906 .- Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
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.^ It is generally accepted that Leviathan is the most celebrated and challenging work of political philosophy written in English.- Mary Midgley: Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 (English) (as Author) Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine (English) (as Commentator) Huttunen, Evert, 1884-1924 .- Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
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^ Mohammedanism Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State (English) (as Author) Hurlbert, William Henry, 1827-1895 .- Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg 16 January 2010 17:017 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
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