The final cause, end, or design of men who naturally love liberty and dominion over others, in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves in which we see them live in commonwealthhs, is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similary every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain difference is found among ends; some are activies, others are products apart from the activies that produce them.
The final cause, end, or design of men who naturally love liberty and dominion over others, in the introduction of that restaint upon themselves in which we see them live in commonwealths, is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby.
Before he was fifteen years old, Thomas Hobbes entered Oxford annd Immediately acquired a dislike for universities which lasted the rest of his life.
Exists anywhere, and cannot exist except in that which lives; and if it is eternal, and nothing in which an eternal thing exists can be non-eternal; then that in which science exists lives eternally.