...let's recall what Hobbes says at Ch. 11, p. 47 (1st paragraph): ". . . the object of man's desire, is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure forever, the way of his future desire. And therefore the voluntary actions, and inclinations of all...

...coalesce to produce an act. Hobbes contends that "the object of mans desire, is not to enjoy once onely, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desire" (L 11:160- 61). In his view, people are not content with the mere satisfaction of a desire in the present...

...famished even by future hunger" (DH 10. 3). As he puts it in Leviathan, the "object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure forever the way of his future desire" (L 11.1). Thus he posits as "a general inclination of all mankind,...

...the rock of critical thinking and fear duly enlightened, Hobbes constructed his realizable ethics: "those qualities of mankind, that concern their living together in peace and unity." The "books of the old moral philosophers" are to be replaced by his new and enlightened "summa of Moral...