How Does Time Move? (Hobbes) - a podcast by Dre Carlan
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“The present only has a being in nature; things past have a being in the memory only; but things to come have no being at all, the future being but a fiction of the mind, applying the sequels of actions past to the actions that are present; which with most certainty is done by him that has most experience, but not with certainty enough. And though it be called prudence when the event answers our expectation; yet in its own nature it is but presumption. For the foresight of things to come, which is providence, belongs only to him by whose will they are to come.”
-Leviathan, Part I, Ch. III
“Anxiety for the future time, disposes men to enquire into the causes of things: because the knowledge of them, makes men the better able to order the present to their best advantage.”
-Leviathan, Part I, Ch. XI
“No man can have in his mind a conception of the future, for the future is not yet. But of our conceptions of the past, we make a future; or rather, call past, future relatively. Thus after a man hath been accustomed to see like antecedents followed by like consequents, whensoever he sees the like come to pass to any thing he had seen before, he looks there should follow it the same that followed then. As for example: because a man hath often seen offenses followed by punishment, when he sees an offense in present, he thinks punishment to be consequent thereto. But consequent unto that which is present, men call future. And thus we make remembrance to be prevision or conjecture of things to come, or expectation or presumption of the future.”
-The Elements of Law, Ch. 4.7
“The present only has a being in nature; things past have a being in the memory only; but things to come have no being at all, the future being but a fiction of the mind, applying the sequels of actions past to the actions that are present; which with most certainty is done by him that has most experience, but not with certainty enough. And though it be called prudence when the event answers our expectation; yet in its own nature it is but presumption. For the foresight of things to come, which is providence, belongs only to him by whose will they are to come.”
-Leviathan, Part I, Ch. III
“Anxiety for the future time, disposes men to enquire into the causes of things: because the knowledge of them, makes men the better able to order the present to their best advantage.”
-Leviathan, Part I, Ch. XI
“No man can have in his mind a conception of the future, for the future is not yet. But of our conceptions of the past, we make a future; or rather, call past, future relatively. Thus after a man hath been accustomed to see like antecedents followed by like consequents, whensoever he sees the like come to pass to any thing he had seen before, he looks there should follow it the same that followed then. As for example: because a man hath often seen offenses followed by punishment, when he sees an offense in present, he thinks punishment to be consequent thereto. But consequent unto that which is present, men call future. And thus we make remembrance to be prevision or conjecture of things to come, or expectation or presumption of the future.”
-The Elements of Law, Ch. 4.7
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