PHILOS 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: East Los Angeles College, De Cive, De Corpore
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Natural lawyers- hobbes is one of the natural lawyers operating in the grotian tradition. Always at the center of political events, classic scholar- translated homer. Leviathan published in 1651- referred to as english politics . Spanned the full range of natural philosophy and moral philosophy- de corpore - systematic account of the foundations of mathematical physics. Best known for his political philosophy, but centrally involved in the same kind of a mechanical physics that descartes was involved in. De cive- on the citizen- cambridge university press translation if i want to look it up. De cive was better known during hobbes" time, and leviathan was more important to clerics, destroying political and theological positions held by clerics in the. Basic unit for understanding the state for hobbes is as a mechanical, created thing. Directly contrary to aristotle"s conception that the state is natural, not through artifice.
