Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

LEVIATHAN(I, 14) 443 dispose himself to peace. This is that law of the Gospel: “whatsoever you require that others should do to ...

which one cannot at once perhaps so easily find one’s way, something may perchance lie from which an important but at present de ...

444 THOMASHOBBES CHAPTER15. OTHERLAW S O FNATURE From that law of Nature by which we are obliged to transfer to another such rig ...

opportunity, a task, presents itself the successful issue of which we can scarcely doubt and in which all thinking men can equal ...

LEVIATHAN(I, 15) 445 like to a piece of law in Coke’s Commentaries on Littleton, where he says, if the right heir of the crown b ...

FOUNDATIONS OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS PREFACE Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and ...

446 THOMASHOBBES know those that knew them, that knew others, that knew it supernaturally; breach of faith cannot be called a pr ...

not know—a warning to those who call themselves independent thinkers and who give the name of speculator to those who apply them ...

LEVIATHAN(I, 15) 447 which is by covenant, where the performance on one part merits the performance of the other part, and falls ...

knowledge. Much less does it deserve the name of moral philosophy, since by this confusion it spoils the purity of morals themse ...

448 THOMASHOBBES and profit to come, is a triumph or glorying in the hurt of another tending to no end; for the end is always so ...

concerning this important question, which has not yet been discussed nearly enough, would, of course, be clarified by applicatio ...

LEVIATHAN(II, 17) 449 And be there never so great a multitude; yet if their actions be directed according to their particular ju ...

Some qualities seem to be conducive to this good will and can facilitate its action, but in spite of that they have no intrinsic ...

450 THOMASHOBBES have no other direction, than their particular judgments and appetites; nor speech, whereby one of them can sig ...

From this fact there arises in many persons, if only they are candid enough to admit it, a certain degree of misology, hatred of ...

LEVIATHAN(II, 18) 451 enemies abroad. And in him consists the essence of the commonwealth; which, to define it, “is one person, ...

may buy from him as cheaply as any other. Thus the customer is honestly served, but this is far from sufficient to warrant the b ...

452 THOMASHOBBES so evident a lie, even in the pretenders’ own consciences, that it is not only an act of an unjust, but also of ...

even in this case if the universal inclination to happiness did not determine his will, and if health were not at least for him ...