{"id":1741,"date":"2012-07-31T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:37:19","slug":"analects-of-the-core-164-hobbes-on-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/07\/31\/analects-of-the-core-164-hobbes-on-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Hobbes on the Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Thomas Hobbes&#8217;s <em>Leviathan<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aristotle and other heathen  philosophers define good and evil by the appetite of men; and well  enough, as long as we consider them governed every one by his own law.  For int eh condition of me that have no other law but their own  appetites, there can be no general rule of good and evil actions. but in  a commonwealth this measure is false. Not the appetite of private men,  but the law, which is the will and appetite of the state, is the  measure. And yet is this doctrine still practised, and men judge the  goodness or wickedness of their own and of other men&#8217;s actions, and of  the actions of the commonwealth itself, by their own passions, and no  man calleth good or evil but that which is so in his eyes, without any  regard at all to the public laws (except only monks and friars, that are  bound by vow to that simple obedience to their superior to which every  subject ought to think himself bound by the law of nature to the civil  sovereign). And this private measure of good is a doctrine, not only  vain, but also pernicious to the public state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Thomas Hobbes&#8217;s Leviathan: Aristotle and other heathen philosophers define good and evil by the appetite of men; and well enough, as long as we consider them governed every one by his own law. For int eh condition of me that have no other law but their own appetites, there can be no general rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,3837,3835,4752],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}