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Thomas Hobbes
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Born 1588 in Westport · Died 1679 in Derbyshire
writer · Kingdom of England · associated with empiricism, determinism
Notable works: Leviathan, De Cive, De Corpore, De Homine
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- Leviathan: with Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668course edition cited: 1994 · Read here → · Assigned in 1 MIT course
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Leviathan: with Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668
From Project Gutenberg e-text #3207 (public domain in the USA).
So that in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death.
No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man; And consequently, that the Obligation a man may sometimes have, upon the Command of the Soveraign to execute any dangerous, or dishonourable Office, dependeth not on the Words of our Submission; but on the Intention; which is to be understood by the End thereof.
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