More quotes from the Leviathan Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. "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." (224) [...]
Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) Excerpts from Leviathan “There be in animals, two sorts of motions peculiar to them: one called vital…the other is animal motion, otherwise called voluntary motion.” (218-219) “These small beginnings of motion…when it is toward something which causes it, is called [...]
Quotes for my students studying virtue ethics. Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. Excerpts from Aristotle’s The Nichomachean Ethics "Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly [...]