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Imagining India

Ronald Inden - History - 2000 - 316 pages
...man. For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, in Latin CIVTTAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater...protection and defence it was intended; and in which the soverrignty is an artificial s»ul, as giving life and motion to the whole body; the magistrates, and...
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The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market

Lawrence Busch - Social Science - 236 pages
...great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON- WEALTH, or STATE, (in latine CIVTTAS) which is but an Artificiali Man; though of greater stature and strength than the...protection and defence it was intended; and in which, the Soveraignly is an Artificiall Soul. (Hobbes [1651] 1991:9; emphasis in original) In short, according...
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Readings in Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and ...

Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - Philosophy - 2000 - 326 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...strength than the natural, for whose protection and defense it was intended, and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion...
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Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century ...

Andrea Lynne Finkelstein - Business & Economics - 2009 - 392 pages
...Civitas) which is but an Artificall Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which, the Soveraignty is an Artificall Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body; The magistrates, and...
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Philosophy and political economy in some of their historical relations ...

Business & Economics - 2000 - 456 pages
...an artificial man (though of greater stature and length than the natural man, for whose protection it was intended), and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul giving life and motion to the whole body."2 Outside this State there can be no laws and no justice...
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The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense

Michael Shermer - Science - 2001 - 368 pages
...from his great work Leviathan: By art is created that great leviathan called a commonwealth, or state which is but an artificial man, though of greater...soul as giving life and motion to the whole body. The wealth and riches of all the particular members are the strength. The people's safety its business.47...
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Software-Agents and Liberal Order: An Inquiry Along the Borderline Between ...

Dirk Nicolas Wagner - Business & Economics - 2001 - 204 pages
...in favour of Leviathan: "For by art is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth, or state, ...which is but an artificial man; though of greater...for whose protection and defence it was intended..." (Hobbes, 1651/1996, 7). From Hobbes ' point of view only the state is capable of protecting the individuals...
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Leviathan Transformed: Seven National States in the New Century

Theodore Caplow - Political Science - 2001 - 236 pages
...Transformed For by an is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an artificial man, though of greater...strength than the natural, for whose protection and defense it was intended ... Among the infirmities therefore of a Commonwealth, I will reckon in the...
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The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society

Edmund Ronald Leach, Senior Research Fellow James Laidlaw - Social Science - 2000 - 428 pages
...is a machine, but it is a man-made machine, which is constructed on the analogy of a human organism: Sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body of magistrates and other officers of the judicature and execution, artificial joints; reward and punishment,...
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Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

Adriana Cavarero - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...of the Platonic figure of the city as macroanthropos, giving us a new state that is none other than an "artificial man, though of greater stature and...for whose protection and defence it was intended" (intro.).11 The body politic is clearly artificial, not because it is conceived and functions as a...
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