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" Again, men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a great deal of grief, in keeping company where there is no power able to overawe them all. "
The Philosophy of Hobbes in Extracts and Notes Collated from His Writings - Page 234
by Thomas Hobbes - 1903 - 391 pages
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Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law

Joseph Rickaby - 1919 - 404 pages
..." in fact that the state of nature is a state of war all round. He writes (Leviathan, c. xiii.) : " Men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a great...companion should value him at the same rate he sets on himself; and upon all signs of contempt or undervaluing naturally endeavours, as far as he dares...
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The Great Society: A Psychological Analysis

Graham Wallas - 1919 - 408 pages
...he argues that to rely on any other motive is to trust to mere words in a world of hard realities. Men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a great deal of grief, id keeping company where there is no power able to overawe them all;1 and No man obeys them whom they...
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Socialism and Character

Henry Cecil Sturt - 1922 - 222 pages
...souls as a rule, are trained by their circumstances to dislike each other. In Hobbes's phrase they " have no pleasure (but on the contrary a great deal of grief) in keeping company." Hobbes himself was brought up in the family of a country tradesman. He is only giving a new form to...
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Thomas Hobbes as Philosopher, Publicist, and Man of Letters: An Introduction

Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin - 1922 - 72 pages
...at death,' 1 he makes the work of union yet more stupendous by adding that 'men have no pleasure but a great deal of grief in keeping company, where there is no power to overawe them.' 2 Although Hobbes modestlyexcuseshimself in i646,'doceo enim mathematicam non politicam,'...
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Development of Social Theory

James Pendleton Lichtenberger - 1923 - 504 pages
...they become enemies ; and in the way to their end, endeavor to destroy or subdue one another. . . . Again, men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a...where there is no power able to overawe them all. . . "So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition ;...
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Social Psychology: A Text Book for Students of Economics and of Social ...

Robert Henry Thouless - 1927 - 396 pages
...Pity, for example, he attributed to " the imagination that the like calamity may befall oneself." "... Again, men have no pleasure (but on the contrary a...where there is no power able to over-awe them all. ... So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, Competition ; Secondly,...
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The Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in Jurisprudence

Clarence Morris - 1971 - 588 pages
...great deale of griefe) in keeping company, where there is no power able to The Crem Legal Philosophen over-awe them all. For every man looketh that his...companion should value him, at the same rate he sets upon himselfe. . . . So that in the nature of man, we find three principal! causes of quarrell. First Competition;...
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The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama - 2006 - 464 pages
...a very different way of seeing contemporary liberal democracy. H The First Man For every man looks that his companion should value him at the same rate...upon all signs of contempt or undervaluing naturally endeavors, as far as he dares . . . to extort a greater value from his contemners by damage and from...
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Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and ...

Talbot J. Taylor - 1992 - 284 pages
...Hobbesian "condition of Warre": Againe, men have no pleasure, (but on the contrary a great deale of griefe) in keeping company, where there is no power able to over-awe them all. ... Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in...
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The Subject of Modernity

Anthony J. Cascardi - 1992 - 332 pages
...between his own solitary and warlike nature and the natural destiny of mankind as a social species: "men have no pleasure, (but, on the contrary a great deal of griefe) in keeping company, where there is no power able to over-awe them all. For every man looketh...
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