...is the one universal and dominant human instinct. Hobbes said, a couple of centuries ago, that the " general inclination of all mankind " is " a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death." Nietzsche declared that " Life itself is the will to power. It is this that...

...is the one universal and dominant human instinct. Hobbes said, a couple of centuries ago, that the " general inclination of all mankind " is "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death." Nietzsche declared that " Life itself is the will to power. It is this that...

...objects of aversion; this ceaseless shuttle seems to make up the sum of their existence. Possessed by a "perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceases only in death," man seems never to know his immortal Self. When Boethius in prison was asked by Philosophia what man...

...Leviathan, Hobbes summed up his teaching about human life by arguing that the first "general inclination of mankind" is "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."21 But we are beginning to see now that the race of which he speaks has no winner,...

...the former being still but the way to the latter... I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceases only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already...

...transition from desire unsatisfied to desire satisfied: I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceases only in death. . . . The felicity of this life, consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied. For there is no...

...the one hand, it may signify anything that pertains to public government, on the other, to Hobbes's "perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceases only in death." 73 It is in this latter sense that politics can be contrasted to patriarchy. For patriarchy obviously...

...no further stages of growth. In Hobbes's statement, "I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceases only in death," 32 no transformation of aim is evident, or intended. It is a forerunner of Bentham's "quantity of pleasure...

...desire, Hobbes makes his famous inference—given as a "general inclination of all mankind"—to wit, "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power that ceases only in death." 39 The transition from the precariousness of men's instant enjoyment to the assuring of a contented...

...produce the effect desired. So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceases only in death. And the cause of this, is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight, than he has already...