POLS 300 Study Guide - Natural Philosophy, Perception, Contin
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Royalists wanted a king over a democracy that the parliamentarians wanted. It affected his ideas and became focused on over and peace. Even if people had souls, you wouldn"t want the citizens to think they had souls. You"d be too concerned with what would happen to you after death and their soul, not their physical self. First political philosophy to ground political science in a physical science or natural philosophy. Sensory perception is usually wrong and can easily be deceived: if there are no concrete standards for goodness/justice, how are these concepts determined? good is subjective, resides in individual. Passions rule the soul; hobbes believes in the morality of the soul. He rejects aristotle"s philosophy. in favor of galileo"s heliocentric theory (earth goes around the sun) which largely treats the world in a matter of motion: what are the 4 types of names? matter, motion, images, names.
