PSYC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Congenital Disorder, Liberal Democracy, Tyrant
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Thomas hobbes (1588 1679) born in malmesbury, england: association with cavendish family, owed much of philosophical interests to euclid. Turned to geometry as a guide to constructing a theory of our moral and political life faith in the power of reason: argument for absolute sovereignty. Not necessarily by an absolute monarchy, can be oligarchy or democracy. Job is to protect the people: human beings are predominately self-interested would all inevitably come in conflict with each other. Sense seeming of fancy that is caused by the external body (light, sound, smell etc. ) Consequence or train of imagination one thought always comes after another thought, but no certainty as to what the thought will be. Speech could not have society without this, used to transfer verbal discourse. Names help remember the consequence of causes and effects restriction of the imagination: truth consists in the right ordering of names in our affirmations. Reasons and science reasoning is the summing of a total.
