POLS 2900 Lecture 7: Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Chapter 1-6, 8, 10 13-15
13 Feb 2018
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Concerning the thoughts of man, i will consider them first singly, and afterwards in train or dependence upon one another. Singly, they are every one a representation or appearance of some quality, or other accident of a body without us, which is commonly called an object. Which object worketh on the eyes, ears, and other parts of man"s body, and by diversity of working produceth diversity of appearances. The original of them all is that which we call sense, (for there is no conception in a man"s mind which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense). To know the natural cause of sense is not very necessary to the business now in hand; and i have elsewhere written of the same at large. Nevertheless, to fill each part of my present method, i will briefly deliver the same in this place.
