POLS 2496 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Apophatic Theology, English Civil War, Nominalism
17 Dec 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Written 1651 puritan revolution, king was killed; a time of rampant political disorder. If it"s taught, it"s true learning hobbes, one becomes hobbesian: self-deprecating, yet self-assured, wants average people to learn his teachings, this treatise is conversational just like plato"s dialogue because hobbes affirms his teaching. Chapter i iv: thoughts of men represent something else, origin of an object is sense, senses inform knowledge claims, hobbes is an empiricist and a nominalist, laws of motion ideas and the senses. 2 types of trains of thoughts: unguided, regulated: 2 types of regulated: imagine the end and seek the ways to get to it, remembrance allows for analyzation, prudence is a presumption about the future. Infinite vs. finite: the finite cannot perceive the infinite, we call god infinite, what we mean is he"s not finite, the skeptic knows infinity best, hobbes" secularism is a religious discovery.
