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" But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable. "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 97
1887
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A Manual of Moral Philosophy: With Quotations and References for the Use of ...

William Fleming - 1867 - 450 pages
...his hate and aversion, Evil; and of his contempt, Vile and inconsiderable. For these words, Good and Evil and Contemptible, are ever used with relation...person that useth them : there being nothing simply nor absolutely so ; nor any common rule of Good and Evil to be taken from the nature of the objects...
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The Student's Manual of Moral Philosophy

William Fleming - 1870 - 458 pages
...his hate and aversion, Evil ; and of his contempt, Vile and inconsiderable. For these words, Good and Evil and Contemptible, are ever used with relation...person that useth them : there being nothing simply nor absolutely so ; nor any common rule of Good and Evil to be taken from the nature of the objects...
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The life of John Locke, Volume 2

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 596 pages
...desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good, and the object of his hate and aversion, evil, and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable. For these words of good and evil and contemptible are ever used with relation to the person that useth them, there being nothing...
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Handbook of Moral Philosophy

Henry Calderwood - 1883 - 380 pages
...desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good ; and the object of his hate and aversion, evil ; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable. For...nothing simply and absolutely so ; nor any common rale of good and evil to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves ; but from the person of...
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Hobbes's Leviathan; Harrington's Ocean; Famous Pamphlets [A.D. 1644 to A.D ...

Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pages
...that is it which he for his part calieth "goxl:" and the object of his hate and aversion, "evil ;" and of his contempt, "vile " and "inconsiderable.'' For these words of good, evil, and contem:,iible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them : there being nothing simply...
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John Locke und die Schule von Cambridge

Georg Graf von Hertling - 1892 - 344 pages
...iusta faciunfc imperando, quae vetant vetando iniusta. 3 Leviathan ch. 6 : These words of Good, Evill, and Contemptible, are ever used with relation to the...and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evill, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves. 1 Martineau aa 0. S. 421. 6 Tulloch S....
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The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 408 pages
...calleth "good " : and the object of his hate and aversion, "evil " ; and of his contempt,_li.vile " an3 "inconsiderable." For these words of good, evil, and...relation to the person that useth them : there being nothing__s_irnply . and absolutely so ; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the...
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Introduction to the Science of Ethics

Theodore De Laguna - 1914 - 444 pages
...part calleth ' good ' : and the object of his hate and aversion, 'evil '. . . . For these words . . . are ever used with relation to the person that useth...them, there being nothing simply and absolutely so." In other words, we do not desire things because they are good ; but their being good means the fact...
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A Historical Introduction to Ethics

Thomas Verner Moore - 1915 - 184 pages
...Cf. his Classification of the Scicnces, Leviathan, I, ix, edited by Molesworth, London, 1839, p. 73. his contempt, vile and inconsiderable. For these words...rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of objects themselves." ' If we ask for the evidence of the relativity of good and evil, the answer comes:...
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Paradise Lost: Introduction

John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 pages
...you belong to the second school you will tend to see morals as relative and subjective, like Hobbes : these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever...them, there being nothing simply and absolutely so. ch. 6 You can see the problem of good versus evil in PL by looking at the position of words in what...
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