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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of ... - Page 43
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Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English ...

Percy Hazen Houston - English literature - 1926 - 548 pages
...protection against anarchy. So has been created "that great Leviathan called the Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater...the natural, for whose protection and defence it was v introduced." To accomplish this end, the whole body of the governed must have resigned all rights...
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Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in ...

John Bender - History - 1987 - 355 pages
...understand the difficulty he faced. Hobbes argues in the Leviathan that "a commonwealth or state ... is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural."64 He later defines a "person" thus: He whose words or actions are considered either as his...
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Hobbes's Political Theory

Deborah Baumgold - Philosophy - 1988 - 232 pages
...created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH ... in which, the Soveraignty is an Artificiall Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body;...Magistrates, and other Officers of Judicature and Execution, artificiall Joynts; Reward and Punishment (by which fastned to the seate of the Soveraignty, every...
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La théorie de la société bien ordonnée chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurizio Viroli - History - 1988 - 208 pages
...that grat LEVIATHAN called a COMMON WEALTH, or STATE (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an artificial; though of greater stature and strength than the natural,...for whose protection and defence it was intended.' Dans une certaine mesure, Hobbes et Shaftesbury peuvent êtreconsidérés comme deux exemples représentatifs...
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Philosophy in World Perspective: A Comparative Hermeneutic of the Major Theories

David A. Dilworth - Philosophy - 1989 - 252 pages
...CIVTTAS), which is but an Artificiall Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defence it was intended;...Officers of judicature and execution, artificial! Joynts; Reward and Punishment . . . are the Nerves, that do the same in the Body Naturall; the Wealth...
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Recovering the Social Contract

Ron Replogle - Philosophy - 1989 - 268 pages
.... . . For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, in Latin CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater...natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended . . . the pacts and covenants, by which the parts of this body politic were at first made, set together,...
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Metaphors in the History of Psychology

David E. Leary - Psychology - 1994 - 404 pages
...(in latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificiall Man ... in which, the Soveraignty is an Artificiall Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body;...Magistrates, and other Officers of Judicature and Execution, artificiall Joynts; Reward and Punishment ... are the Nerves [and so on], (p. 81) Of course, when we...
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British Moralists, 1650-1800: Hobbes

David Daiches Raphael - Philosophy - 1991 - 440 pages
...is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but ail artificial man; though of greater stature and strength...whole body; the magistrates, and other officers of j udicature and execution, artificial] oints ; reward and punishment (by which fastened to the seat...
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A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...Man. For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth, or State (in Latin Civitas) which is but an artificial man; though of greater...for whose protection and defence it was intended. Leviathan Introduction, 1651 80 Nature itself cannot err. Lrviathan I, 4, 1651 81 Geometry (which is...
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The Executive's Compass: Business and the Good Society

James O'Toole - Business & Economics - 1995 - 190 pages
...corporation — in the guise of the Leviathan. which is superior to the individual and. in effect. "an artificial man. though of greater stature and...strength than the natural. for whose protection and defense it was intended." (We recognize this idea today m the legal notion that a corporation is an...
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