The Leviathan of Fairy Tail Chapter 17 by dragomaster767 on DeviantArt
Here is a further precept of the law of nature: Eleventh law of nature: If a man is trusted to judge between man and man, he should deal equally between them. All Actions, and Speeches, that proceed, or seem to proceed from much Experience, Science, Discretion, or Wit, are Honourable; For all these are Powers. Both have the same function--to protect society and secure peace--and both have the same rights relative to their subjects. Amongst the people of Asia, Afrique, and America, there is not, nor was ever, any such thing. If they can do so, why can't men, who after all, are animals themselves? Something may even be gained for the reader in the fresh and unconstrained character of the paper.
Chapter XIII. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery. Hobbes, Thomas. 1909
And seeing dreames are caused by the distemper of some of the inward parts of the Body; divers distempers must needs cause different Dreams. He took the former to be the wiser sort and thought his philosophy showed him to be one of them ; the latter were those who had strong bodies, but were not philosophers as he was. And in sedition, men being alwayes in the procincts of battell, to hold together, and use all advantages of force, is a better stratagem, than any that can proceed from subtilty of Wit. Rousseau, whose survey of human nature often strangely and suspiciously resembles that of Hobbes, advocated—in some moods at least—a return to nature. I walked along the edge standing next to Finn to get a better look at the water. And because in Deliberation, the Appetites, and Aversions are raised by foresight of the good and evill consequences, and sequels of the action whereof we Deliberate; the good or evill effect thereof dependeth on the foresight of a long chain of consequences, of which very seldome any man is able to see to the end.
That Understanding which is peculiar to man, is the Understanding not onely his will; but his conceptions and thoughts, by the sequell and contexture of the names of things into Affirmations, Negations, and other formes of Speech: And of this kinde of Understanding I shall speak hereafter. And as the power, so also the honour of the sovereign, ought to be greater than that of any or all the subjects. With regard to children, while Hobbes does say that they are not automatically subjects of their parents just because they were born, saying they consent when their rational faculties are fully developed leaves open the question of whether they can fully consent until their physical faculties are fully developed. But of the severall kinds of Madnesse, he that would take the paines, might enrowle a legion. He caught Volt staring at him with a dark expression, one that clearly said he's too good for you and Levi just smirked. And of Names Universall, some are of more, and some of lesse extent; the larger comprehending the less large: and some again of equall extent, comprehending each other reciprocally.
Leviathan Chapter 17, an Evangelion + Godzilla Crossover fanfic
For every man looketh that his companion should value him at the same rate he sets upon himself, and, upon all signs of contempt or undervaluing, naturally endeavours as far as he dares which amongst them that have no common power to keep them in quiet, is far enough to make them destroy each other to extort a greater value from his contemners by damage, and from others by the example. As in the presence of the master, the servants are equal, and without any honour at all; so are the subjects, in the presence of the sovereign. This is more than Consent, or Concord; it is a real Unitie of them all, in one and the same Person, made by Covenant of every man with every man, in such a manner, as if every man should say to every man, I Authorize and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this Man. That shows a man that in learning the laws of nature all he has to do is this: When weighing the actions of other men against his own, ·if· they seem too heavy then he should put them into the other pan of the balance, and his own into their pan, to ensure that his own passions and self-love are not adding anything to the weight. And in the chain of Discourse, wheresoever it be interrupted, there is an End for that time. Chuckling, Troy let out what must have been the umpteenth sigh.
There be in Animals, two sorts of Motions peculiar Motion Vitall and Animal. I sipped a little tea to see how it tasted. The other is Compounded; as when from the sight of a man at one time, and of a horse at another, we conceive in our mind a Centaure. In Deliberation, the last Appetite, or Aversion, immediately adhæring to the action, or to the omission thereof, The Will. A few seconds passed, then she screamed in embarrassment.
Of the signification, of Spirit, Angell, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture. For such authority is to trump in card-playing, save that in matter of government, when nothing else is turned up, clubs are trumps. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which neverthelesse they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their End, which is principally their owne conservation, and sometimes their delectation only, endeavour to destroy, or subdue one an other. Troy flushed red, and dropped his gaze. And though at some certain distance, the reall, and very object seem invested with the fancy it begets in us; Yet still the object is one thing, the image or fancy is another. And, as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words and especially that skill of proceeding upon general and infallible rules called science, which very few have and but in few things, as being not a native faculty born with us, nor attained, as prudence, while we look after somewhat else, I find yet a greater equality amongst men than that of strength.
He couldn't do this, he couldn't humor Troy. The master claims a free and absolute right of arbitrary definition. There is yet another fault in the Discourses of some men; which may also be numbred amongst the sorts of Madnesse; namely, that abuse of words, whereof I have spoken before in the fifth chapter, by the Name of Absurdity. Levi glanced up from the corner of his eye. Right, Equity, Law, and Justice, disposeth a man to make Custome and Example the rule of his actions; in such manner, as to think that Unjust which it hath been the custome to punish; and that Just, of the impunity and approbation whereof they can produce an Example, or as the Lawyers which onely use this false measure of Justice barbarously call it a Precedent; like little children, that have no other rule of good and evill manners, but the correction they receive from their Parents, and Masters; save that children are constant to their rule, whereas men are not so; because grown strong, and stubborn, they appeale from custome to reason, and from reason to custome, as it serves their turn; receding from custome when their interest requires it, and setting themselves against reason, as oft as reason is against them: Which is the cause, that the doctrine of Right and Wrong, is perpetually disputed, both by the Pen and the Sword: Whereas the doctrine of Lines, and Figures, is not so; because men care not, in that subject what be truth, as a thing that crosses no mans ambition, profit, or lust. Drop by anytime you want to read free — fast — latest manga. A plain husband-man is more Prudent in affaires of his own house, then a Privy Counseller in the affaires of another man.
The Heaven, the Ocean, the Planets, the Fire, the Earth, the Winds, were so many Gods. And because they are essential and inseparable rights, it follows necessarily that in whatsoever words any of them seem to be granted away, yet if the sovereign power itself be not in direct terms renounced and the name of sovereign no more given by the grantees to him that grants them, the grant is void: for when he has granted all he can, if we grant back the sovereignty, all is restored, as inseparably annexed thereunto. He also outright scowled at her. . Also Riches joyned with liberality, is Power; because it procureth friends, and servants: Without liberality, not so; because in this case they defend not; but expose men to Envy, as a Prey.
But the apparence, or sense of that motion, is that wee either call Delight, or Trouble Of Mind. But know not the way how they effect any thing. But to make their difference appeare more cleerly, let us suppose one man endued with an excellent naturall use, and dexterity in handling his armes; and another to have added to that dexterity, an acquired Science, of where he can offend, or be offended by his adversarie, in every possible posture, or guard: The ability of the former, would be to the ability of the later, as Prudence to Sapience; both usefull; but the later infallible. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of anything than that every man is contented with his share. He created reason in the interests of peace. Why haven't you locked me up? Common-wealths amongst the Gentiles, whose ends were only to keep the people in obedience, and peace, have in all places taken care; First, to imprint in their minds a beliefe, that those precepts which they gave concerning Religion, might not be thought to proceed from their own device, but from the dictates of some God, or other Spirit; or else that they themselves were of a higher nature than mere mortalls, that their Lawes might the more easily be received: So Numa Pompilius pretended to receive the Ceremonies he instituted amongst the Romans, from the Nymph Egeria: and the first King and founder of the Kingdome of Peru, pretended himselfe and his wife to be the children of the Sunne: and Mahomet, to set up his new Religion, pretended to have conferences with the Holy Ghost, in forme of a Dove. Leviathan is set on his feet; he is the king of the proud; but his feet are of clay; he too is a fiction.
