Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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Lucy, William, 1594-1677.
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1663.
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. -- Leviathan.
State, The.
Political science.
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Sect. 5.
Out of this he draw's the Axiome, The right of possession, and use of those things belong's to me, which soe∣ver can yield me profit to the obtaining the end of those things that, I have said above, God require's;
But when I may judge in a right and uncorrupted judg∣ment, all the creatures in the world can afford me that use;
Therefore I have a right to all.
Thus farre he, whom I could well guesse to be one of Mr. Hobbes his Disciples by his manner of arguing; this he make's a syllogisme, but there is not one propo∣sition which hath a Logicall form, nor is there a strong connexion of one with another.
His Axiome, or major, is false, because he supposeth
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man, particular man, to be the end of all the world.
* 1.1For else how can the disposure of them to that end (a particular man's advantage) entitle a man to have right unto them; Had this been affirmed by Adam, or Noah, there had been some reasons for it, because they had a right to each piece of the whole world; or had it been affirmed of mankind, the species of man, it had a truth in it, because the world is ordered to the service of that species; but when applyed to any particular of that species, on any other Sons of these Fathers of the world, it is of no force, for they have onely right to, and can onely make use of their shares and particular propor∣tions, which are distributed to them by the Law's and Customs of the world, or of those Nations wherein they live; nor are other things disposed to those particular ends: God hath entitled them no farther.
I can deny this proposition againe out of my former ground;* 1.2 a man hath absolute right to those things which conduce to the last and universall end, but not to those things which conduce to any mediate and particu∣lar end, because that end it self may be uselesse; now God require's, and Nature require's the more publick to be advanced by the more private and particular end; when that second is uselesse, the meanes in order to it are so likewise, which have only an utility in order to it.
Notes
* 1.1
Each particu∣lar man can∣not pretend a right to the whole world.