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Arash Abizadeh on Thomas Hobbes' Ethics

Philosophy Bites

CHAPTER

The Science of Ethics

In ancient ethics, of course, ethics was ultimately about your own good. So it is this kind of egoistic in its structure but not in its content. Because i recall what i said earlier, is that baked into what's good for you is other people's good. That's hobbs's starting point. But he also has a way of bringing the collectivity and other people’s good into ethics with the way that he starts out. He calls it the science of the good, which is just my good. And then that's where community comes in for him. The way in which each individual's own good is going to be served actually coincides with other people's individual good

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