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" The value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power : and therefore is not absolute ; but a thing dependent on the need and judgment of another. "
The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury - Page ccxix
by Thomas Hobbes - 1845
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...and dishonour. The value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his price ; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power : and therefore is not absolute ; but a tiling dependant on the need and judgment of another. An able...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Volumes 8-10

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 pages
...has his price,—" The value or worth of man is, as of all other things, his price, that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power," and " to value a man at a high rate is to honour him." " Civil obedience proceeds from love of ease,...
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The biblical museum, Volume 5

James Comper Gray - 1873 - 406 pages
...— Coleridye. " The value or worth of a man is as of all other things his price —that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power \»-НоЬЫя. у Dr. W. Arnot. duties of servants a Ep. vi. 5 ; CoL Ш. M; l Ti. vi. l ; Tit. ii....
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Hobbes's Leviathan; Harrington's Ocean; Famous Pamphlets [A.D. 1644 to A.D ...

Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pages
...issue. The " value," or " worth" of a man, is ar, of all other things, his price ; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power : and therefore is not absolute ; but a thing dependent on the need and judgment of another. An able...
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Philosophy and Political Economy in Some of Their Historical Relations

James Bonar - 1893 - 438 pages
...place of "the value or worth of a man being, like that of all other things, his price, that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power, and therefore not absolute, but dependent on the need and judgment of another," adding that: " As in...
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Philosophy and Political Economy in Some of Their Historical Relations

James Bonar - 1893 - 432 pages
...place of " the value or worth of a man being, like that of all other things, his price, that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power, and therefore not absolute, but dependent on the need and judgment of another," adding that: "As /...
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Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie

Karl Marx - 1903 - 788 pages
...Arbeitsprodukte. 42) „The Value or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his price: that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power." Th. Hobbes: „Leviathan" in „Works edit. Molesworth. London 1839—44," v. III, p. 76. 4•) Der...
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The Philosophy of Hobbes in Extracts and Notes Collated from His Writings

Thomas Hobbes - 1903 - 444 pages
...mother, as his issue. The value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power : and therefore is not absolute ; but a thing dependent on the need and judgment of another. An able...
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx - 1906 - 880 pages
...commodity. * "The value or worth of a man, is as of all other things his price — that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power." (Th. Hobbes: "Leviathan" in Works, EA Molesworth. Lord. 1839-44, v. iii., p. 76.) to that necessary...
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Socialism: a Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles

John Spargo - 1909 - 376 pages
...anticipated Marx in thus distinguishing between labor and laboring power in the saying, " The value or worth of a man is ... so much as would be given for the Use of his Power." The power to labor assumes the commodity form, being at once a use-value and an exchange-value. At...
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