| Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 sider
...say, continual prospering, is that men call FELICITY ; Felicity. I mean the felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of...felicity God hath ordained to them that devoutly honour Hun, a man shall no sooner know, than enjoy ; being joys, that now are as incomprehensible, as the... | |
| John Timbs - 1840 - 430 sider
...in the hands of private individuals, instead of being in the possession of the public. Felicily.— There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of...desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. Critiques on Art. — Mrs. Jameson, in the preface to her translation of Dr. Waagen's Memoir of Rubens,... | |
| 1910 - 470 sider
...felicity ' — I mean the felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here, because life itself is...ordained to them that devoutly honour Him a man shall no •ooner know than enjoy, being joys that now are as incomprehensible as the word of schoolmen ' beatifical... | |
| Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - 1926 - 232 sider
...is to say, continual! prospering is that men call Felicity ; I mean the Felicity of this Life. For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of...Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense." " Felicity is a continuall progress of the desire from one object... | |
| David P. Gauthier - 1969 - 234 sider
...that is to say, continual prospering, is that men call FELICITY; I mean the felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of...desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. (EW iii, p. 51) It does not follow from the fact that life is but motion — vital motion — that... | |
| Dante Germino - 1979 - 416 sider
...call Felicity; I mean the felicity of this life. For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is...than without sense. What kind of felicity God hath 13. Ibid., chap. 6, pp. 32-33. 14. Ibid., p. 35. ordained to them that devoutly honour Him, a man shall... | |
| Henk de Wild - 1986 - 340 sider
...Hobbes' Theorie. In seiner Beschreibung des Menschen erreicht diese Auffassung ihre volle Gültigkeit: there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of...desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. (EW III, 51) Diese Bewegung ist im Prinzip zwar neutral, wird aber durch den Selbsterhaltungstrieb... | |
| Joseph H. Carens, Professor Department of Political Science Joseph H Carens - 1993 - 314 sider
...insists, "I mean felicity of this life," emphasizing the transitory character of felicity, because "there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity...desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense." 37 In chapter 11, Hobbes again underscores that, in this life, felicity does not lie in the "repose... | |
| John Gray - 1993 - 372 sider
...call Felicity; I mean the Felicity of this life, for there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life itself is...Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.1 For Hobbes, as his most distinguished twentieth-century interpreter,... | |
| Andrew Milner - 1993 - 156 sider
...subsequently acknowledged as 'culture', but rather the physical movement of the material human body: 'life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear' (Hobbes, 1960:39). The body and its desires and fears, to pursue pleasure and to avoid pain, thus provide... | |
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