 | Jürgen Moltmann, Margaret Kohl - 1999 - 308 Seiten
...in one person, is called a COMMONWEALTH, in Latin CIVITAS. This is the generation [ie, birth] of the great LEVIATHAN, or rather, to speak more reverently,...which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the... | |
 | Richard Henry Popkin - 1999 - 904 Seiten
...it more vaguely means something very large and powerful. It represents the state or sovereign power, "that mortal God, to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence." But Leviathan is an artificial, not a natural, animal, Hobbes tells us, in which sovereignty... | |
 | A. P. Martinich - 1999 - 430 Seiten
...of the sovereign is the same as James's. When he says that Leviathan, that is, the government, is "a mortal god to which we owe (under the immortal God) our peace and defense,"25 he is not saying something unprecedented or blasphemous. The difference between Hobbes... | |
 | Ronnie D. Lipschutz - 2000 - 264 Seiten
...(1962:132) put it, [T]he multitude so united in one person, is called a COMMONWEALTH, in Latin CIVITAS. This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or...owe under the immortal God, our peace and defense. (Emphasis added) By establishing borders between states and permitting rulers to be sovereign within... | |
 | Eric Voegelin, Gilbert Weiss - 1989 - 348 Seiten
...The single human persons cease to exist and merge into the one person represented by the sovereign. "This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or...which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence." The covenanting men agree "to submit their wills, every one to his will, and their judgments... | |
 | Karsten Poppe - 2000 - 213 Seiten
...Staates erkennt: „This is the generation of that great LEV1ATHAN, or rather, to speak more referently, of that mortal god, to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the... | |
 | W.E. Conklin - 2001 - 372 Seiten
...integrate the divine and the secular when he acknowledges the supreme Representer for the first time as "that great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently) of that Mortal! God, to which we owe under the Immortall God, our peace and defence."169 The Representer is a leviathan because, like the mythical... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 Seiten
...called a commonwealth, in Iatin. cirita.i. This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAX. or rather 1to speak more reverently) of that mortal God to which we owe under the immortal God. our peace and defence, For hy this authority, given him hy every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the... | |
 | Stephen H. Watson - 2001 - 332 Seiten
...required monarchial supervention—but he had from the outset constructed the figure of the Leviathan, "that Mortal God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence" according to the concept of personhood—the "real Unitie of them all, in one and the same... | |
 | Patricia Wallace - 2001 - 298 Seiten
...peaceably and fairly with our fellow humans. Thomas Hobbes proposed the concept of the Leviathan, denned as "that mortal god, to which we owe under the immortal God; our peace and defence." The Leviathan might simply be a system of government that we empower to resolve disputes,... | |
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This is the generation of that great "leviathan," or, rather, to speak more reverently, of that "mortal god," to which we owe, under the "immortal God, 
