This book contains a passage about someone who is too stupid to memorize the names of numbers, and as a consequence can observe a clock but not tell what time it is striking. This book says that, just as bad weather consists of an inclination to rain followed by actual rain, war consists of a disposition towards fighting followed by actual fighting. According to this book, understanding is a form of imagination, which in turn is a decaying sense perception. This book blames misinterpretation of (*) Scripture for creating a "kingdom of darkness." Its author's earlier bo
This book contains a passage about someone who is too stupid to memorize the names of numbers, and as a consequence can observe a clock but not tell what time it is striking. This book says that, just as bad weather consists of an inclination to rain followed by actual rain, war consists of a disposition towards fighting followed by actual fighting. According to this book, understanding is a form of imagination, which in turn is a decaying sense perception. This book blames misinterpretation of (*) Scripture for creating a "kingdom of darkness." Its author's earlier book De Cive introduced the idea of the war of all against all, which this book uses to characterize man in the state of nature. For 10 points, name this treatise by Thomas Hobbes
This book contains a passage about someone who is too stupid to memorize the names of numbers, and as a consequence can observe a clock but not tell what time it is striking.
Leviathan