...xxi-xxiv. 4. Underlying Hobbes's political view is the conviction that moral notions such as good and evil are "ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply or absolutely so," not any common meaning "to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves."...

...discover the wellsprings of human behavior. What he found there was nothing but pursuit of pleasure. "Whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or...good; and the object of his hate and aversion, evil." Desire and fear propel humans into a kind of perpetual motion, inevitably producing conflict among...

...want of right Reason, by the claym they lay to it. CHAPTER 6 But whatsoever is the object of any mans Appetite or Desire; that is it, which he for his part...calleth Good: And the object of his Hate, and Aversion, Evill; And of his Contempt, Vile, and Inconsiderable. For these words of Good, Evill, and Contemptible,...

...Thomas Hobbes provides the orthodox answer to this question. "... whatsoever is the object of any mans Appetite or Desire; that is it, which he for his part...calleth Good: And the object of his Hate, and Aversion, Evill; And of his Contempt, Vile, and Inconsiderable. For these words of Good, Evill, and Contemptible,...

...where he speaks only of "Bonum Apparens" (same pages). Compare Leviathan, Chapter 6 (Ev Lib. p. 24) "Whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or...desire; that is it which he for his part calleth good." s See especially Cogitations III, in fine. In Works V, ail ; tr. in Works X, 295. Contrast Aristotle:...

...to always being good for himself then this is not egoism. And sometimes he does suggest this: "But whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is which he for his part calleth good." 21 In many places he talks of good without it specifically relating...

...desiring or being averse to things because we take them to be good, evil, or contemptible: 21 "But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or...evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable" (Lev. 1.6, 48). 22 'Good', 'evil', and 'contemptible', he goes on, are relative to the person using...

...whatever one would like to have, or to do what one wants to do. As Thomas Hobbes put the point: "But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or...good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil. . . . For these words of good and evil ... are ever used with relation to the person that useth them:...

...should read 'I do not like abortion'. I When someone says} this is good, he means that he desires it. Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or...Good: and the object of his hate and Aversion, Evil . . . For these words of Good, Evil . . . are ever used with relation to the person that useth them:...

...what appeals to the desires, bad the opposite. To talk about anything more abstract leads into error. "For these words of good, evil, and contemptible,...useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so."3 The same is true of the beautiful or ugly. Meanwhile, his new theory of associationism allowed...