PHI 1000C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Nature, The Strongest
26 Jun 2017
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Hobbes: how we ought to live together, how we reason, how we think, premises things we can accept as true, human nature (ch. 5/6: how we act, what makes us do the things we do, hobbes builds on the above and say how we ought to live together. Introduction; pg 3-5: compares how god created the world to the life humans, life is nothing more than the motion of limbs , key word nothing but matter & motion. We are matter & motion that operate according to basic principles: automata: capability to do something for & by itself, like a clock, machines v. humans, heart v. spring. That we are lying to ourselves; false ideas about what a human being is makes us act a certain way. It influences what we think and do. Hobbes want to give a true idea about ourselves: we are all basically the same. Having a emotional response then trying to be rational.
