 | Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - 312 pages
...should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the Small Morals; but those qualities of mankind, that concern their living together in Peace, and Unity. To which end we are to consider, that the Felicity of this life, consisteth not in the repose of a... | |
 | Margaret Hodgen - 1964 - 532 pages
...a man should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such points of small morals; but those qualities of mankind, that concern their living together in peace and unity."' The initial problem of the collector of manners and customs thus came to be found in the realm of concepts... | |
 | Alan Gewirth - 1978 - 406 pages
...who has desires and purposes even when he is not currently acting. Thus "the object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure forever the way of his future desire." Well-being requires that actions be successful "in a complete... | |
 | Gregory S. Kavka - 1986 - 488 pages
...most relevant parts of the passage containing that claim read as follows: The object of man's desire, is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of 26 If there are efficiencies of scale or coordination involved, my power may increase by an even larger... | |
 | Jean Hampton - 1986 - 318 pages
...way to the later. The cause whereof is, That the object of mans desire, is not to enjoy once onely, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desire. And therefore the voluntary actions, and inclinations of all men, tend, not only to the procuring,... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1987 - 220 pages
...is for Hobbes a continuous progress of desire from one object to another. The object of man's desire "is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of...time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desire."8 "So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual... | |
 | Ron Replogle - 1989 - 268 pages
...passions is reserved for the discussion of "manners" in chapter 11 of Leviathan. By manners Hobbes meant "those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity" (p. 85). Among those qualities is the "inclination" of all men to pursue "felicity" and "power." By... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 440 pages
...should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the small morals; but those qualities of mankind, that concern their living together in peace, and unity. To which end we are to consider, that the felicity of this life, consisteth not in the repose of a... | |
 | Richard E. Flathman - 1992 - 252 pages
...former, being still but the way of the latter. The cause whereof is, that the object of man's desire, is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of...to assure for ever, the way of his future desire. And therefore the voluntary actions, and inclinations of all men, tend, not only to the procuring,... | |
 | Joseph H. Carens, Professor Department of Political Science Joseph H Carens - 1993 - 314 pages
...striving for more is presented as man's foremost desire. Hobbes writes, "The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of...to assure for ever, the way of his future desire." 41 But this cannot mean that men desire the continuance of any enjoyment or the obtaining of what one... | |
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The cause whereof is that the object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure for ever the way of his future desire. 
