British Moralists: Being Selections from Writers Principally of the Eighteenth Century, Količina 2

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Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
Clarendon Press, 1897
 

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Stran 293 - To this war of every man, against every man, this also is consequent ; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice.
Stran 291 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war ; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man.
Stran 293 - The RIGHT OF NATURE, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own judgment, and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto...
Stran 357 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Stran 288 - I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power; but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
Stran 291 - So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition ; secondly, diffidence ; thirdly, glory. The first, maketh men invade for gain ; the second, for safety ; and the third, for reputation.
Stran 298 - ... more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the evil that happeneth to an innocent man may happen to every man.
Stran 293 - The passions that incline men to peace, are fear of death ; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living ; and a hope by their industry to obtain them.
Stran 260 - For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves...
Stran 289 - NATURE hath made men so equal, in the faculties of the body and mind ; as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as well as he.

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