POL200Y5 Chapter Notes -Human Nature, Purgatory, Political Philosophy
22 Apr 2014
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Lecture 16: leviathan- part 1 continued and part 2. In geometry, mathematicians start from very simple propositions propositions, which everyone would agree, are obviously true and from those propositions they are able to demonstrate the truth of more complex and unlikely propositions. Aristotle describes a condition in which our desires come to rest. Hobbes thinks of eudemonia as an illusion and a deception that must be un-masked: he thinks its desire that dominant human life and that there is no sense in which desire can come to rest. Continual successes is obtaining those things which a man from time to time desire, that is to say, continual prospering, is that men call felicity; i mean the. For there is no such things as a perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life it self is but motion, and can never be without desire, nothing without fear, no more than without sense (129-130)
