Thomas Hobbes

Summary of leviathan

Against civil wars

start of the modern political thought

Opposition to Scholasticism

Chapter 1 ‘of senses’

The origin of thought is sense

Origin of sense is an impression of an external object

Sense is an apperance that does not conincide with the object that caused it

Aristotle on sense

There are two pressures/external forces not one

1) The capacity of the object to be seen

2) My capacity to see the object

Chapter 2 ‘of imagination’

What is conatus

External small beginnings of motion e.g satisfaction after eating which leads to

What is aversion?

Explain diffidence of one another

Reason why we are in a society, others may get together to take your possessions and we know

What is Homo Homini Lupus

Following the law of nature in the specific enironment, fear of other. Diffidence of others means we also know that they also fear us so we attack first