Part I, Chapter 11
Explicitly rejects the classical tradition: 'there is no such Finis ultimus, (utmost ayme,) nor Summum Bonum, (greatest Good,) as is spoken of in the Books of the old Morall Philosophers.'
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From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Against Aristotle, Hobbes denies any final end or greatest good; felicity is continual success in obtaining the objects of desire.
Part I, Chapter 6
Defines felicity as 'Continuall successe in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth.'
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