Who of the following said that felicity is “continued success in obtaining those things which a man…
In Chapter VI of Leviathan (1651), Thomas Hobbes defined ‘felicity’ (human happiness in this life) as “continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to…
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Who of the following said that felicity is “continued success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desires” ?
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In Chapter VI of Leviathan (1651), Thomas Hobbes defined ‘felicity’ (human happiness in this life) as “continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth, that is to say, continual prospering,” rejecting the classical Aristotelian and scholastic notion of a tranquil summum bonum or final resting end of desire.
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