 | George Perrigo Conger - 1922 - 226 sidor
...viewed as a prototype of more definite and literal organismic theories. For Hobbes, the commonwealth is "but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural." 1 In this commonwealth, the sovereignty is an artificial soul, which gives life and motion to the whole... | |
 | Langdon Winner - 1978 - 400 sidor
...preconceived design, both certainty and control would be assured. This is the solution Thomas Hobbes offered: "For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE," a political order that would be more perfect since it was built from the ground up on entirely rational... | |
 | Benjamin R. Barber, Michael J. Gargas McGrath - 432 sidor
...asocial. The English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes argued in the introduction to his Leviathan: "For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth, or State, (in Latine Civitas) which is but an artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural,... | |
 | Michael T. Taussig - 1997 - 216 sidor
...although it had turned against God, was seen by Hobbes, in its standing for the state, as "that mortal god which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural" — the point being that no matter how historically inaccurate this fable obviously is, it is nevertheless... | |
 | A. Biletzki - 1997 - 242 sidor
...Publishers, 1987). 6 Notice that in other languages this connection is sometimes lost on the reader. For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth, or State (in latine Civitas) which is but an Artificiall Man. (Leviathan, Introduction) The differentiation between... | |
 | Roger Smith - 1997 - 1070 sidor
...of human action makes possible a machine for government this is the machine he called 'Leviathan'. 'For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificiall Man ... in which, the Soveraignty is an Artificiall Soul,... | |
 | Sanford Schram, Philip T. Neisser - 1997 - 284 sidor
...agreement is contrasted with an artificial image of the self in which sovereignty is to be alienated. For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE . . . which is but an Artificiall Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural!, for... | |
 | Daniel Ray White, Gert Hellerich - 1998 - 240 sidor
...nerves, but so many strings, and the joints, but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as was intended by the artificer? Art goes yet further,...excellent work of nature, man. For by art is created the great Leviathan called a CommonuieaWi, or State, in Latin Civitas, which is but an artificial man"... | |
 | Daniel Ray White - 1998 - 282 sidor
...nerves, but so many strings, and the joints, but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as was intended by the artificer? Art goes yet further,...excellent work of nature, man. For by art is created the great Leviathan called a Commonwealth, or State, in Latin Civitas, which is but an artificial man.... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1998 - 312 sidor
...related to De Cive. But he does use it occasionally, most famously in the introduction to Leviathan: 'For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH or STATE (in Latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial! Man.'2 So one might choose 'state' to translate civitas.... | |
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Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man ; for by art is created that great leviathan, called a Commonwealth, or State, (in Latin Ciutas) which is but an artificial man... 
