Materialist Psychology and the Passions

From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes offers a mechanistic account of human psychology where all voluntary motion derives from endeavour (appetite/aversion), and good and evil are relative to individual desire.
Part I, Chapter 6

Defines endeavour, appetite, aversion, and reduces good and evil to objects of desire and aversion: 'whatsoever is the object of any mans Appetite or Desire; that is it, which he for his part calleth Good.'

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Part I, Chapter 11

Famous claim about restless desire: 'a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death.'

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