 | Matt Cartmill - 1996 - 352 páginas
...nerves.10 Thomas Hobbes drew the obvious conclusion at the beginning of his Leviathan in 1651: For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs . . . why may we not...whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer. The brusque and irreligious Hobbes saw the human spirit itself as merely a gaseous component of the... | |
 | Daniel C. Dennett - 1996 - 596 páginas
...is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer? Art goes yet further, imitating that Rational! and most excellent worke of Nature, Man. For by Art... | |
 | Eugene Halton - 1995 - 324 páginas
...is the heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and l\x]oynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?" Hentham psychologized and nominalized organic cultus yet further into individual sensations of pleasure... | |
 | David Wootton - 1996 - 964 páginas
...animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; s, whi@ c! Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man. For by art is... | |
 | Christine Marion Korsgaard - 1996 - 294 páginas
...artificial life? For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheels, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?23 And he proceeds to construct a completely mechanistic explanation of how human beings... | |
 | David Macauley - 1996 - 372 páginas
..."Heart, (as) but a Spring, and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer.' If man is mere artifact, corresponding to the artifact of nature, then despite Hobbes's profession... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 2008 - 516 páginas
...animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that...whole body, such as was intended by the artificer? Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man. For by art is... | |
 | Z. Radman - 1996 - 208 páginas
...artificial life? For wat is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheels, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer? (1968: 81) The explanation of the human organism in terms of clock-mechanism is only a small part of... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - 1997 - 304 páginas
...the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer."56 Echoing and expanding the image of the heart as an "Engine" already used by the traditional... | |
 | Daniel Ray White, Gert Hellerich - 1998 - 240 páginas
...animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that...whole body, such as was intended by the artificer? Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man. For by art is... | |
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For what is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings; and the joints, but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as was intended by the artificer? 
