{"id":17400,"date":"2022-06-11T00:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/?p=17400&lang=en"},"modified":"2022-06-10T21:38:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T18:38:23","slug":"bees-can-make-it-but-men-cannot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/bees-can-make-it-but-men-cannot\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Bees can make it, but men cannot (THOMAS HOBBES)"},"content":{"rendered":"
This consent, or concord, amongst so many men, though it may be made by the fear of a present invader, \r\nor by the hope of a present conquest, or booty, and endure as long as that action endureth, nevertheless,\r\nby the diversity of judgments and passions in so <\/span><\/span><\/span>many men contending naturally for honour and advantage\r\n one above another, it is impossible, not only that their consent to aid each other against an enemy, but also \r\nthat the peace should last between themselves, without some mutual arid common fear to rule them. <\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nBut contrary hereunto may be objected, the experience we have of certain living creatures a multitude irrational, \r\nthat nevertheless continually live in of mime irrat<\/span>io<\/span><\/span> creatures, such good order and government for their common \r\nand not of men benefit, and are so free from sedition and war amongst themselves, that for peace, profit, and <\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\ndefence, nothing more can be imaginable. And the experience we have in this, is in that little creature the bee, \r\nwhich is therefore reckoned amongst animalia politica. Why therefore may not men, that foresee the benefit of \r\nconcord, continually maintain the same without compulsion, as well as they ? To which I answer, that amongst \r\nother living creatures, there is no question of precedence in their own species, nor strife about <\/span><\/span><\/span>honour, or \r\nacknowledgment of one another's wisdom, as there is amongst men, from whence arise envy and hatred of one\r\n towards another, and from thence sedition and war. Secondly, those living creatures aim every one at peace and\r\n food common <\/span><\/span><\/span>to them all ; men aim at dominion, superiority, and private wealth, which are distinct in every man, \r\nand breed contention. Thirdly, those living creatures that are without reason, have not learning enough to espy, \r\nor to think they espy, any defect in the government ; arid therefore are contented therewith. But in a multitude of \r\nmen, there are always some that think themselves wiser than the rest, and strive to alter what they think amiss,\r\nand divers of them strive to alter divers ways, and that causeth war. Fourthly, they want speech, and are therefore \r\nunable to instigate one another to faction, which men want not. Fifthly, they have no conception of right and wrong, \r\nbut only of pleasure and pain,and therefore also no censure of one another, nor of their commander, as long as they \r\narethemselves at ease; whereas men that make themselves judges of right and wrong, are then least at quiet, when\r\nthey are most at ease. Lastly, natural concord, such as is amongst those creatures, is the work of God by the way of \r\nnature; but concord amongst men is artificial, and by way of covenant. And therefore no wonder, if such <\/span><\/span><\/span>irrational \r\ncreatures as govern themselves in multitude, do it much more firmly than mankind, that do it by arbitrary institution. \r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\n
Human Nature<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n
Thomas Hobbes<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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This consent, or concord, amongst so many men, though it may be made by the fear of a present invader, or by the hope of a present conquest, or booty, and endure as long as that action endureth, nevertheless, by the diversity of judgments 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