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Comment: “The end of every man is continued success in obtaining those things which he from time to time, desires. (Hqbbes)

  • UPSC 1995
  • Western Political Thought

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The statement paraphrases Thomas Hobbes's definition of felicity in chapter 6 of Leviathan (1651): continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth, that is to say, continual prospering. Chapter 11 draws the consequence: there is no final end at which a man can rest. This restless, mechanical idea of…

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  • The Argument: Desire Without Destination
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