Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

LEVIATHAN(II, 18) 453 accuse any man but himself; no nor himself of injury; because to do injury to one’s self, is impossible. I ...

conception of law in itself (which can be present only in a rational being) so far as this conception and not the hoped-for effe ...

454 THOMASHOBBES conservation, the right of protecting himself by his private strength, which is the condition of war, and contr ...

myself: Would I be content that my maxim of extricating myself from difficulty by a false promise should hold as a universal law ...

LEVIATHAN(II, 18) 455 have so instructed men in this point of sovereign right, that there be few now in England that do not see, ...

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing, but it is very sad that it cannot well maintain itself, being easily led astray. For this ...

456 THOMASHOBBES CHAPTER21. OF THELIBERTY OFSUBJECTS LIBERTY, or FREEDOM, signifies, properly, the absence of opposition; by opp ...

It is, in fact, absolutely impossible by experience to discern with complete certainty a single case in which the maxim of an ac ...

LEVIATHAN(II, 21) 457 artificial chains, called “civil laws,” which they themselves, by mutual covenants, have fastened at one e ...

morality. Even the Holy One of the Gospel must be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before He is recognized as such; e ...

458 THOMASHOBBES There is written on the turrets of the city of Lucca in great characters at this day, the word LIBERTAS; yet no ...

itself to completeness and of requiring the public, which desires popularization, to await the outcome of this undertaking. But ...

LEVIATHAN(II, 21) 459 soldier in his place: for in this case he deserts not the service of the commonwealth. And there is allowa ...

In this study we do not advance merely from the common moral judgment (which here is very worthy of respect) to the philosophica ...

460 THOMASHOBBES repugnancy between such a liberty and the sovereign power; and therefore the sovereignty is still retained; and ...

it can be determined to act by its own subjective constitution only through the concep- tion of the good. Thus no imperatives ho ...

461 Blaise Pascal was the middle child of an upper-class magistrate in Clermont- Ferrand, France. His mother died when he was 3 ...

merely uncertain and merely possible purpose, but as necessary to a purpose which we can a prioriand with assurance assume for e ...

462 BLAISEPASCAL under the influence of the Jansenists, a group of devout Catholics, Pascal still found himself without directio ...

Finally, there is one imperative which directly commands certain conduct without making its condition some purpose to be reached ...