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Single Idea 2383
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
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Full Idea
The writers of moral philosophy, though they acknowledge the same virtues and vices, yet not seeing wherein consisted their goodness, nor that they come to be praised as the means of peaceable, sociable and comfortable living.
Gist of Idea
Virtues are a means to peaceful, sociable and comfortable living
Source
Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], 1.15)
Book Ref
Hobbes,Thomas: 'Leviathan', ed/tr. Macpherson,C.B. [Penguin 1981], p.216
The
39 ideas
from 'Leviathan'
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8014
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Resolve a complex into simple elements, then reconstruct the complex by using them
[Hobbes, by MacIntyre]
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5337
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For Hobbes the Golden Rule concerns not doing things, whereas Jesus encourages active love
[Hobbes, by Flanagan]
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19764
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Hobbes attributed to savages the passions which arise in a law-bound society
[Hobbes, by Rousseau]
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20566
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Hobbes says the people voluntarily give up their sovereignty, in a contract with a ruler
[Hobbes, by Oksala]
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20485
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Hobbes says people are roughly equal; Locke says there is no right to impose inequality
[Hobbes, by Wolff,J]
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20484
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We should obey the laws of nature, provided other people are also obeying them
[Hobbes, by Wolff,J]
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7573
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The legal positivism of Hobbes said law is just formal or procedural
[Hobbes, by Jolley]
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2356
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Appearance and reality can be separated by mirrors and echoes
[Hobbes]
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2357
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Dreams must be false because they seem absurd, but dreams don't see waking as absurd
[Hobbes]
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2358
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Freedom is absence of opposition to action; the idea of 'free will' is absurd
[Hobbes]
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2359
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Desire and love are the same, but in the desire the object is absent, and in love it is present
[Hobbes]
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2362
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The will is just the last appetite before action
[Hobbes]
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2363
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Reason is usually general, but deliberation is of particulars
[Hobbes]
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2360
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'Good' is just what we desire, and 'Evil' what we hate
[Hobbes]
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2361
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If fear of unknown powers is legal it is religion, if it is illegal it is superstition
[Hobbes]
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2364
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Causation is only observation of similar events following each other, with nothing visible in between
[Hobbes]
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2365
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Religion is built on ignorance and misinterpretation of what is unknown or frightening
[Hobbes]
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2366
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There is not enough difference between people for one to claim more benefit than another
[Hobbes]
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2367
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In time of war the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short
[Hobbes]
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2368
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Men's natural desires are no sin, and neither are their actions, until law makes it so
[Hobbes]
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2370
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All voluntary acts aim at some good for the doer
[Hobbes]
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2371
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A contract is a mutual transfer of rights
[Hobbes]
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2374
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In the violent state of nature, the merest suspicion is enough to justify breaking a contract
[Hobbes]
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2372
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The person who performs first in a contract is said to 'merit' the return, and is owed it
[Hobbes]
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2375
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Suspicion will not destroy a contract, if there is a common power to enforce it
[Hobbes]
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2373
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The first performer in a contract is handing himself over to an enemy
[Hobbes]
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2369
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If we seek peace and defend ourselves, we must compromise on our rights
[Hobbes]
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2378
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Belief in an afterlife is based on poorly founded gossip
[Hobbes]
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2383
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Virtues are a means to peaceful, sociable and comfortable living
[Hobbes]
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2376
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Injustice is the failure to keep a contract, and justice is the constant will to give what is owed
[Hobbes]
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2377
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No one who admitted to not keeping contracts could ever be accepted as a citizen
[Hobbes]
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2379
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If there is a good reason for breaking a contract, the same reason should have stopped the making of it
[Hobbes]
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2382
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Someone who keeps all his contracts when others are breaking them is making himself a prey to others
[Hobbes]
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2380
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Punishment should only be for reform or deterrence
[Hobbes]
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23987
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The 'simple passions' are appetite, desire, love, aversion, hate, joy, and grief
[Hobbes, by Goldie]
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6214
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Liberty and necessity are consistent, as when water freely flows, by necessity
[Hobbes]
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7559
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Every part of the universe is body, and non-body is not part of it
[Hobbes]
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8015
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Hobbes wants a contract to found morality, but shared values are needed to make a contract
[MacIntyre on Hobbes]
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8016
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Fear of sanctions is the only motive for acceptance of authority that Hobbes can think of
[MacIntyre on Hobbes]
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