 | Michael Boylan - 1999 - 244 pages
...to characterize the agent's necessary prospectivity by quoting Hobbes, "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" (62). Turning to Gewirth's last argument, he writes: "The generic-dispositional... | |
 | Peter Berkowitz - 2000 - 256 pages
...Hobbes continues the work of explaining morality in nonmoral terms by systematically redefining manners, "those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity," in terms of desire, in particular, the desire to exercise greater power.26 Before too long in his account... | |
 | Eric Voegelin, Gilbert Weiss - 1989 - 348 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... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 pages
...former being still but the way to the latter. 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 forever the way of his future desire" ( i . 1 1 ) . In Hobbes's definition, happiness is a pursuit,... | |
 | Stephen David Ross - 2001 - 376 pages
...or others', mourning without genitivity. CHAPTER 3 Sovereign Properties the object of man's desire, is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of...assure for ever, the way of his future desire.... ... I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after... | |
 | Sheldon S. Wolin - 2001 - 664 pages
...crucial text is chapter n of Leviathan. Hobbes begins it as if he intends a discussion of "manners," "those qualities of man-kind that concern their living together in Peace and Unity" (p. 160). He then subverts that conception by promptly introducing in highly dramatic terms man's "perpetuall... | |
 | David van Mill - 2001 - 270 pages
...society founded on manners, by which he meant not simply manners in terms of small politenesses, but "those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in Peace and Unity." 1 The ultimate goal for Hobbes is a society organized according to the principles of equality found... | |
 | Adriana Cavarero - 2002 - 246 pages
...basic urge for selfpreservation. The natural freedom to move according to one's own desires, which aims "not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time,...to assure for ever, the way of his future desire" (Leviathan, XI), results in the constant and dreaded danger that movement itself will cease. Men's... | |
 | David Carvounas - 2002 - 142 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,... | |
 | William James Bouwsma - 2002 - 328 pages
...way to the latter. The cause whereof is, That the object of man's desire, is not to enjoy once onely, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desire.1 This vision of human existence as incessant movement suggests something like Mikhail Bakhtin's... | |
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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. 
