First-Degree Würde: A Means to What End?! An Examination of Human Dignity and Moral Status in Kantian Ethics and Utilitarianism! ! Kantian Ethics! ! In Chapter 10 of his famous book Leviathan, philosopher Thomas Hobbes writes on the topic of the worth of a person. He writes, “The ‘value,’ or ‘worth,’ of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for t...

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes voices concern over the squandering of the‎ prospects human prosperity. This paper argues that remedy he proposes ‎is political replication scripture’s idea creation; acknowledgment ‎of an originator, a first cause indisputable order. Hobbes’s nemesis, ‎Fool, is agent antithetical tohu and bohu (the disarray that‎ preceded creation), who misguidedly believes can work...

Field, Sandra Leonie (2020)Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power Popular PoliticsNueva York: Oxford University Press, 320 p.ISBN 9780197528242

I N THE FIRST PART OF LEVIATHAN, “OF MAN,” BEFORE HOBBES DEFINES a commonwealth and prophesies the philosophical “Kingdome of Darknesse” into which it can descend (956), he proclaims that “to have no Desire, is to be Dead” (110). As a motto for the passions, the phrase resonates as a defense of desire, a call to understand strong feelings as on the side of life. To have no desire is to be dead ...