Thomas Hobbes, De Cive, 1647 [ Concepts ]
… Part I: Liberty Chapter I Of the State of Men Without Civil Society I. The faculties of Humane nature may be reduc'd unto four kinds; Bodily strength, Experience, Reason, Passion. Taking the beginning of this … conditions of Society, or of Humane Peace; that is to say, (changing the words onely) what are the fundamentall Lawes of Nature. II. The greatest part of those men who have written ought concerning Commonwealths, either suppose, or require … though received by most, is yet certainly False, and an Errour proceeding from our too slight contemplation of Humane Nature; for they who shall more narrowly look into the Causes for which Men come together, and delight in each others De …
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