HUM 3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Empirical Evidence, Human Nature, Social Contract
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Politics centered on security: desire for certainty in an uncertain world. Lives through a century of violence in great britain. It is in our best interest to trade anything away for security. His idea of a commonwealth is based on individuals, but he does not agree with a democratic government. In favor or a strong central power (sovereign: government should be sovereign. Nature is god"s art: man imitates god on all kinds of levels, when we create, we create artificial things (which isn"t always bad) When we aspire to imitate god: the way god creates man is how we create society, we erect the artificial man (the leviathan) to protect the real man (commonwealth) When human beings agree on something, we make stuff. The moment we stop believing the artificial man, it is gone. The similitude of passions are all the same in men: desire, fear, hope.
