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History of econ
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
When is there no place for industry
Where do men have no pleasure
Keeping company where there is no power able to overawe them all
Hobbes on Humans being social
Neither Zoon Politikon nor Animal Sociale Nature state is antisocial (Contradicts aristotle), its the fear of others that brings them together in the civil state
