 | American essays - 1889 - 874 pages
...multitude . . . united in one person is called a commonwealth, in Latin ciritdft. This is the generation of that great leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently,...which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defense. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the... | |
 | Kanan Makiya - History - 1998 - 364 pages
...political realm. Civil society, however, presents itself factually as a complex enthe Common- Wealth, he hath the use of so much Power and Strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is inabled to forme the wills of them all, to Peace at home. . . . And in him consistetti the Essence... | |
 | Mary Zey - Business & Economics - 1998 - 156 pages
...being. Hobbes ([1651] 1968) characterizes the Commonwealth as "(he great Leviathan" and likens it to a "Mortal God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defense" (p. 227). It is clear that for Hobbes, human beings can achieve peace only within the Society... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...multitude so united in one person, is called a Commonwealth, in Latin Civitas. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently,...which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence.'4 It is to be noted that when Hobbes speaks of the multitude being united in one person he... | |
 | John McCumber - Metaphysics - 1999 - 368 pages
...is a real Unitie of them all, in one and the same Person, made by Covenant. ... By this Authoritie, given him by every particular man in the Common-Wealth,...hath the use of so much Power and Strength conferred in him, that by terror thereof, he is 139 inabled to conforme the wills of them all, to Peace at home,... | |
 | John McCumber - History - 1999 - 360 pages
...of them all, in one and the same Person, made by Covenant. ... By this Authorise, given him by everv particular man in the Common-Wealth, he hath the use of so much Power and Strength conferred in him, that by terror thereof, he is inabled to conforme the wills of them all, to Peace at home,... | |
 | Richard Henry Popkin - History - 1999 - 904 pages
...it more vaguely means something very large and powerful. It represents the state or sovereign power, "that mortal God, to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence." But Leviathan is an artificial, not a natural, animal, Hobbes tells us, in which sovereignty is an... | |
 | Russell Hardin - Constitutional history - 2003 - 404 pages
...chosen sovereign that 'by this Authoritie, given him by every particular man in the Common- Wealth, he hath the use of so much Power and Strength conferred on him, that by the terror thereof, he is inabled to forme the wills of them all'.13 Gregory Kavka and Jean Hampton... | |
 | A. P. Martinich - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 430 pages
...of the sovereign is the same as James's. When he says that Leviathan, that is, the government, is "a mortal god to which we owe (under the immortal God) our peace and defense,"25 he is not saying something unprecedented or blasphemous. The difference between Hobbes... | |
 | Karsten Poppe - 2000 - 213 pages
...Staates erkennt: „This is the generation of that great LEV1ATHAN, or rather, to speak more referently, of that mortal god, to which we owe under the immortal...the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power an strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is enable to perform the wills of them all,... | |
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This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God, 
