This work proposes that imagination is "nothing but decaying sense" and that passions are "interior beginnings of voluntary motions."
This work proposes that imagination is "nothing but decaying sense" and that passions are "interior beginnings of voluntary motions." Its author argues that Scripture is interpreted to justify the assumption of power by popes in its last section titled "Of the Kingdom of Darkness," while another part states that the three causes of fights are competition, diffidence, and glory. One section in the part of this work titled "Of Man" compares aristocracy, democracy, and monarchy, while the preceding chapter, titled "On the Natural Condition of Mankind," describes human existence as "poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Arguing for an absolute monarchy, this is, FTP, which political tract of Thomas Hobbes?
This work proposes that imagination is "nothing but decaying sense" and that passions are "interior beginnings of voluntary motions."
{Leviathan} Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil