All 11 Uses of
arbiter
in
Leviathan
- And therfore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence they will both stand, or their controversie must either come to blowes, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever: And when men that think themselves wiser than all others, clamor and demand right Reason for judge; yet seek no more,…†
Chpt 1.5
- …words of Good, evill, and Contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: There being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and evill, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves; but from the Person of the man (where there is no Common-wealth;) or, (in a Common-wealth,) From the Person that representeth it; or from an Arbitrator or Judge, whom men disagreeing shall by consent set up, and make his sentence the Rule thereof.†
Chpt 1.6
- And Distributive Justice, the Justice of an Arbitrator; that is to say, the act of defining what is Just.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- Wherein, (being trusted by them that make him Arbitrator,) if he performe his Trust, he is said to distribute to every man his own: and his is indeed Just Distribution, and may be called (though improperly) Distributive Justice; but more properly Equity; which also is a Law of Nature, as shall be shewn in due place.†
Chpt 1.15
- He therefore that is partiall in judgment, doth what in him lies, to deterre men from the use of Judges, and Arbitrators; and consequently, (against the fundamentall Lawe of Nature) is the cause of Warre.†
Chpt 1.15
- This other, to whose Sentence they submit, is called an ARBITRATOR.†
Chpt 1.15
- And therefore it is of the Law of Nature, "That they that are at controversie, submit their Right to the judgement of an Arbitrator."†
Chpt 1.15
- The Seventeenth, No Man Is His Own Judge And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause: and if he were never so fit; yet Equity allowing to each party equall benefit, if one be admitted to be Judge, the other is to be admitted also; & so the controversie, that is, the cause of War, remains, against the Law of Nature.†
Chpt 1.15
- The Eighteenth, No Man To Be Judge, That Has In Him A Naturall Cause Of Partiality For the same reason no man in any Cause ought to be received for Arbitrator, to whom greater profit, or honour, or pleasure apparently ariseth out of the victory of one party, than of the other: for he hath taken (though an unavoydable bribe, yet) a bribe; and no man can be obliged to trust him.†
Chpt 1.15
- Or if they had Arbitrators amongst themselves, who should execute their Judgments, when they had no power to arme their Officers?†
Chpt 3.42
- For St. Paul does but advise them, to take some of their Brethren to compound their differences, as Arbitrators, rather than to goe to law one with another before the Heathen Judges; which is a wholsome Precept, and full of Charity, fit to bee practised also in the Best Christian Common-wealths.†
Chpt 3.42
Definition:
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(arbiter) someone who settles disputes -- often because of reputation
or:
someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue