POL200Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Relativism

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Won't define or use - biblical, 'vain glory' instead
Tendency to overestimate ourselves
Pride: name Leviathan from proud God
The good
Themes
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Indication that Gods look out for Romans
Hobbes: I don't care who you are because you are in power
Aim is to keep peace, civil peace is best end / telos
Geese: warned Romans of enemies coming, he is going to be goose
for everyone
Wants to put an end to --> particular problem
Outworks of enemy: assault on scripture is necessary, wars of religion
destroying Europe
Dedicatory - how would accept?
Human smallness, you need God, you're nothing without
Why calling Leviathan? Appears in book of Jove, life was destroyed to
try to shake faith
Pride in what man can accomplish and individual pride
We are our own salvation from state of nature
From God making man to man making God
Our greatest creation as we are God's greatest, rules over us, we are
the most powerful to ourselves
Obedience to authority / Leviathan
Doubt authority : only trust yourself
Chapter 2. Prisoners of senses - everything is a result
of perception
Only way to interact with outside world, but flawed
Hobbes's mind
Nothing, but decaying sense
Imagination is welding together sense perception
Why we believe in ghosts --> religion same origin
Dreams: don't know you're not awake
Memory and imagination
Unguided : no purpose
What makes man unique --> can recognize
causes / effects, conscious of power, deeper
understanding
Guided: result of desires; what matters for thinking
Trains of Thought
Speech : human invention
1-8's psychology
Page 5 - nose teipson: don't trust books, should trust everything he tells
you --> you'll find he is right
Introduction
Hobbes
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Won"t define or use - biblical, "vain glory" instead. Doubt - relationship to authority, doubt everything but selves. Geese: warned romans of enemies coming, he is going to be goose for everyone. Hobbes: i don"t care who you are because you are in power. Aim is to keep peace, civil peace is best end / telos. Outworks of enemy: assault on scripture is necessary, wars of religion destroying europe. Wants to put an end to --> particular problem. Appears in book of jove, life was destroyed to try to shake faith. Human smallness, you need god, you"re nothing without. Our greatest creation as we are god"s greatest, rules over us, we are the most powerful to ourselves. Pride in what man can accomplish and individual pride. We are our own salvation from state of nature. From god making man to man making god.

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