Thomas Hobbes — "For whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which h…"
For whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable. For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves; but from the person of the man (where there is no Commonwealth;) or, (in a Commonwealth,) from the person that representeth it; or from an Arbitrator or Judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent set up, and make his sentence the rule thereof.
