...commodity, military, and moral conceptions of value when he wrote, The value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so...would be given for the use of his power: and therefore is not absolute; but a thing dependant on the need and judgment of another. . . . And as in other things,...

...that the produce of labour universally becomes a. commodity. 4 "The value or worth of a man, is as of all other things his price — that is to say,...much as would be given for the use of his power." (Th. Hobbes: "Leviathan" ir. Works, Ed. Moleswortb. Lond. 1889-44, v. iii, p. 78.) to that necessary...

...dignity.10 By contrast, Hobbes tied dignity to power. He wrote that 'The value or worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say so much as he would be given for the use of his power.' 1 1 In turn, he offered this definition of dignity: 'The...

...power with our perceptions of one another, Hobbes observes that "[t]he Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power" (L 10:151). Thanks to CB Macpherson's reading of Hobbes as a protocapitalist or an apologist for the...

...saying that any worth human beings have is purely instrumental: "The value, or worth, of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power."9 Hampton represents Kant as holding, by contrast, that our worth is entirely non-instrumental,...