PSYC 305 Lecture 8: Chapter 8 - Part 1 - Mechanization and Quantification-

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Thomas hobbes argued that the subject matter of philosophy is the motion of physical bodies. He used a mathematical method in the rationalist tradition. enough to establish anything of a universal nature. He was not an empiricist, believed that experience alone was not. He was a nominalist in that he advocated the use of reason to provide. Hobbes was also a thoroughgoing materialist . names and classification systems . He argued that god is a material being. he sees god as the thing that set nature in motion, but is no longer doing much. Hobbes believed that human nature was self-serving. Humans can suppress these urges largely through fear of the state. Sensations and thoughts are to be understood in terms of motions in the sense of organs and brain. He described the body as a machine . motion to the whole body (peach, 1982, p. 840)

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