| 7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Tuck] |
| 17240 | Definitions are the first step in philosophy |
| 6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly |
| 8014 | Resolve a complex into simple elements, then reconstruct the complex by using them [MacIntyre] |
| 17237 | Definitions of things that are caused must express their manner of generation |
| 17239 | Definition is resolution of names into successive genera, and finally the difference |
| 17241 | A defined name should not appear in the definition |
| 17242 | 'Petitio principii' is reusing the idea to be defined, in disguised words |
| 17245 | A part of a part is a part of a whole |
| 17258 | If we just say one, one, one, one, we don't know where we have got to |
| 16789 | Only supernatural means could annihilate anything once it had being |
| 17253 | Change is nothing but movement |
| 7559 | Every part of the universe is body, and non-body is not part of it |
| 16670 | Accidents are just modes of thinking about bodies |
| 16621 | Accidents are not parts of bodies (like blood in a cloth); they have accidents as things have a size |
| 16734 | The complete power of an event is just the aggregate of the qualities that produced it |
| 17247 | The only generalities or universals are names or signs |
| 14960 | Bodies are independent of thought, and coincide with part of space |
| 17250 | If you separate the two places of one thing, you will also separate the thing |
| 17249 | If you separated two things in the same place, you would also separate the places |
| 17248 | If a whole body is moved, its parts must move with it |
| 16620 | A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form |
| 16790 | A body is always the same, whether the parts are together or dispersed |
| 17244 | To make a whole, parts needn't be put together, but can be united in the mind |
| 17233 | Particulars contain universal things |
| 17246 | Some accidental features are permanent, unless the object perishes |
| 17251 | The feature which picks out or names a thing is usually called its 'essence' |
| 16622 | Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances |
| 17257 | It is the same river if it has the same source, no matter what flows in it |
| 12853 | Some individuate the ship by unity of matter, and others by unity of form |
| 17256 | If a new ship were made of the discarded planks, would two ships be numerically the same? |
| 16794 | As an infant, Socrates was not the same body, but he was the same human being |
| 17255 | Two bodies differ when (at some time) you can say something of one you can't say of the other |
| 6215 | 'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause |
| 16582 | We can imagine a point swelling and contracting - but not how this could be done |
| 16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them |
| 2356 | Appearance and reality can be separated by mirrors and echoes |
| 16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses |
| 7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths |
| 2357 | Dreams must be false because they seem absurd, but dreams don't see waking as absurd |
| 17238 | Science aims to show causes and generation of things |
| 17260 | Imagination is just weakened sensation |
| 19373 | A 'conatus' is an initial motion, experienced by us as desire or aversion [Arthur,R] |
| 6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd |
| 2358 | Freedom is absence of opposition to action; the idea of 'free will' is absurd |
| 2384 | Those actions that follow immediately the last appetite are voluntary |
| 2385 | If a man suddenly develops an intention of doing something, the cause is out of his control, not in his will |
| 6214 | Liberty and necessity are consistent, as when water freely flows, by necessity |
| 6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head |
| 2948 | Sensation is merely internal motion of the sentient being |
| 23987 | The 'simple passions' are appetite, desire, love, aversion, hate, joy, and grief [Goldie] |
| 17261 | Apart from pleasure and pain, the only emotions are appetite and aversion |
| 17236 | Words are not for communication, but as marks for remembering what we have learned |
| 7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Tuck] |
| 2362 | The will is just the last appetite before action |
| 2363 | Reason is usually general, but deliberation is of particulars |
| 7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them |
| 2360 | 'Good' is just what we desire, and 'Evil' what we hate |
| 7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Tuck] |
| 2368 | Men's natural desires are no sin, and neither are their actions, until law makes it so |
| 6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us |
| 2359 | Desire and love are the same, but in the desire the object is absent, and in love it is present |
| 2370 | All voluntary acts aim at some good for the doer |
| 7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Tuck] |
| 6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end |
| 2371 | A contract is a mutual transfer of rights |
| 8015 | Hobbes wants a contract to found morality, but shared values are needed to make a contract [MacIntyre] |
| 2372 | The person who performs first in a contract is said to 'merit' the return, and is owed it |
| 5337 | For Hobbes the Golden Rule concerns not doing things, whereas Jesus encourages active love [Flanagan] |
| 2374 | In the violent state of nature, the merest suspicion is enough to justify breaking a contract |
| 8016 | Fear of sanctions is the only motive for acceptance of authority that Hobbes can think of [MacIntyre] |
| 2375 | Suspicion will not destroy a contract, if there is a common power to enforce it |
| 2377 | No one who admitted to not keeping contracts could ever be accepted as a citizen |
| 2379 | If there is a good reason for breaking a contract, the same reason should have stopped the making of it |
| 2373 | The first performer in a contract is handing himself over to an enemy |
| 2382 | Someone who keeps all his contracts when others are breaking them is making himself a prey to others |
| 2383 | Virtues are a means to peaceful, sociable and comfortable living |
| 2376 | Injustice is the failure to keep a contract, and justice is the constant will to give what is owed |
| 2367 | In time of war the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short |
| 19764 | Hobbes attributed to savages the passions which arise in a law-bound society [Rousseau] |
| 20566 | Hobbes says the people voluntarily give up their sovereignty, in a contract with a ruler [Oksala] |
| 2366 | There is not enough difference between people for one to claim more benefit than another |
| 20485 | Hobbes says people are roughly equal; Locke says there is no right to impose inequality [Wolff,J] |
| 2369 | If we seek peace and defend ourselves, we must compromise on our rights |
| 20484 | We should obey the laws of nature, provided other people are also obeying them [Wolff,J] |
| 7573 | The legal positivism of Hobbes said law is just formal or procedural [Jolley] |
| 2380 | Punishment should only be for reform or deterrence |
| 23609 | I act justly if I follow my Prince in an apparently unjust war, and refusing to fight would be injustice |
| 2361 | If fear of unknown powers is legal it is religion, if it is illegal it is superstition |
| 6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others |
| 16600 | Prime matter is body considered with mere size and extension, and potential |
| 17252 | Acting on a body is either creating or destroying a property in it |
| 17254 | An effect needs a sufficient and necessary cause |
| 2364 | Causation is only observation of similar events following each other, with nothing visible in between |
| 17235 | A cause is the complete sum of the features which necessitate the effect |
| 17234 | Motion is losing one place and acquiring another |
| 17259 | 'Force' is the quantity of movement imposed on something |
| 17243 | Past times can't exist anywhere, apart from in our memories |
| 7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature |
| 2365 | Religion is built on ignorance and misinterpretation of what is unknown or frightening |
| 2378 | Belief in an afterlife is based on poorly founded gossip |