 | Christopher Flynn - 2008 - 180 páginas
...Hobbes asks, "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?"13 By the late eighteenth century the literature of sensibility had significantly constricted... | |
 | Patricia Springborg - 2005 - 404 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? 46. Drake, Essay, 246. 47. Ibid., 247. 48. On the 'shackled runner' argument see Nathan Glazer, Affirmative... | |
 | Robert Brecher - 1997 - 236 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?"' When Hobbes argues, in Behemoth, that people can 'be taught their duty, that is, the science of just... | |
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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? 
