POL200Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Relativism
***Chapter 19 - Machiavelli - EXAM
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Won't define or use - biblical, 'vain glory' instead
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Tendency to overestimate ourselves
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Pride: name Leviathan from proud God
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The good
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Doubt - relationship to authority, doubt everything but selves
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Themes
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Indication that Gods look out for Romans
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Hobbes: I don't care who you are because you are in power
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Aim is to keep peace, civil peace is best end / telos
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Geese: warned Romans of enemies coming, he is going to be goose
for everyone
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Wants to put an end to --> particular problem
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Outworks of enemy: assault on scripture is necessary, wars of religion
destroying Europe
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Dedicatory - how would accept?
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Human smallness, you need God, you're nothing without
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Why calling Leviathan? Appears in book of Jove, life was destroyed to
try to shake faith
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Pride in what man can accomplish and individual pride
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We are our own salvation from state of nature
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From God making man to man making God
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Our greatest creation as we are God's greatest, rules over us, we are
the most powerful to ourselves
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Obedience to authority / Leviathan
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Doubt authority : only trust yourself
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Chapter 2. Prisoners of senses - everything is a result
of perception
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Only way to interact with outside world, but flawed
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Hobbes's mind
Nothing, but decaying sense
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Imagination is welding together sense perception
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Why we believe in ghosts --> religion same origin
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Dreams: don't know you're not awake
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Memory and imagination
Unguided : no purpose
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What makes man unique --> can recognize
causes / effects, conscious of power, deeper
understanding
Guided: result of desires; what matters for thinking
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Trains of Thought
Speech : human invention
1-8's psychology
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Page 5 - nose teipson: don't trust books, should trust everything he tells
you --> you'll find he is right
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Introduction
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Hobbes
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Document Summary
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.