 | Stephen MACEDO, Stephen Macedo - 2009 - 368 pages
...xxi-xxiv. 4. Underlying Hobbes's political view is the conviction that moral notions such as good and evil are "ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply or absolutely so," not any common meaning "to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves."... | |
 | Robert P. George, Christopher Wolfe - 2000 - 220 pages
..."that is it, which he for his part calleth good." Moral notions such as good and evil, said Hobbes, are "ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply or absolutely so," nor any common meaning "to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves."23... | |
 | Peter Cane, John Gardner - 2001 - 262 pages
...Desire; that is it, which he for his part calleth Good: And the object of his Hate, and Aversion, Evill; And of his Contempt, Vile, and Inconsiderable. For these words of Good, Evill, and Contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: There being nothing... | |
 | David Dyzenhaus, Arthur Ripstein - 2001 - 1086 pages
...Desire; that is it, which he for his part calleth Good: And the object of his Hate, and Aversion, Evill; And of his Contempt, Vile, and Inconsiderable. For these words of Good, Evill, and Contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: There being nothing... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 430 pages
...conceptions'278 and in chapter 6 he draws the strongly nominalist inference that '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'.279 Hobbes also seeks to explain why... | |
 | Deborah Achtenberg - 2002 - 240 pages
...the person using them, rather than signifying something about the things to which they are applied: "For these words of good, evil, and contemptible,...them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so . . ." (Lev. 1.6, 48-49). Desires and aversions, then, are not types of perception of good or evil... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 2002 - 464 pages
...what appeals to the desires, bad the opposite. To talk about anything more abstract leads into error. "For these words of good, evil, and contemptible,...useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so."3 The same is true of the beautiful or ugly. Meanwhile, his new theory of associationism allowed... | |
 | Tibor R. Machan, James Chesher - 2002 - 280 pages
...calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil. . . . For these words of good and evil ... are ever used with relation to the person that useth...and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil."9 Yet, the previous quote paradoxically implies that if someone were to desire something obviously... | |
 | Richard E. Flathman - 2002 - 220 pages
...famous — and in many quarters infamous view — that "these words of Good, Evill [etc.] are never used with relation to the person that useth them:...and absolutely so; nor any common rule of Good and Evill, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves." But rather than taking this view as... | |
 | Greg Dewar - 2002 - 181 pages
...calleth Good: and the object of his hate and Aversion, Evil . . . For these words of Good, Evil . . . are ever used with relation to the person that useth...them: There being nothing simply and absolutely so; not any common Rule of Good and Evil to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves. Hobbes,... | |
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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. 
