PHIL1090 Lecture Notes - Totalitarianism
22 Jan 2014
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Chapter 3-of the consequence or trayne of imaginations. Concern the mechanics of the human mind covering the topics of sense, imagination, and the train of thought. Our knowledge of our world originates from external bodies pressing against our sensory apparatus. Since the universe is envisioned as a plenum constituted of matter, hobbes depicts objects continually bumping against each other and describes the passage of motion from one body to another. Elementary motion of the universe eventually transfers to the surface of the human body, where nerves, membranes of the eyes, nose, ears, tongue, skin are physically moved, in turn relaying their motions to the brain. Sense is the action of external bodies colliding with our sensitive organs. Challenges vitalism which states that matter is self-motivated. When a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion unless acted upon by another body. Continuance of motion is responsible for the transformation of sense into thoughts.
