Craft is prudence applied to unjust ends. According to Hobbes, craft is frequently seen within common-wealths, and royalists in Hobbes’s day viewed many of the actions of parliamentarians as craft.
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Craft Term Timeline in Leviathan
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Chapter 8: Of the VERTUES commonly called INTELLECTUAL: and their contrary DEFECTS
...and memory, this is known as prudence, and prudence applied to unjust ends is called craft.
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Chapter 12: Of Religion
...gods and religion. Fertility was because of Venus, the arts due to Apollo, and all craft was the fault of Mercury. Prophecy was natural, and it was believed fortunes could be...
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