Some thoughts about the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes /part 2/

in #godflesh5 years ago (edited)

Philosophers are those who claim to be able to reason. Hobbes tries to distinguish knowledge from facts from knowledge of reason. It distinguishes philosophy from both everyday knowledge and knowledge based on religious belief. The real science is ascetic, it is rather indiscriminately dry and almost outrageous. Ideal, a prototype of knowledge. This strict mathematization requires the philosophy to be accurate, to have a method of application.

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For the first time in the early 17 c. T. Hobbes points to the nature of logical knowledge, to the logical approach. An attempt to overcome the finding of many separate facts, to overcome empiricism and to understand the essence of things. In The Mind, Hobbes defines philosophy as a body teaching. It proposes a combination of mechanistic ontology and rationalist gnosiology.For Hobbes, the essence of philosophy is to clarify the nature of logical knowledge. Philosophy, unlike everyday knowledge, requires us to accept the degree of sufficient justification. Philosophy presupposes the contradiction of exit points and their sequential conduct. Faithfulness of principle and principle.

Hobbes defines philosophy as a body teachings. "The subject or matter of the philosophy she is thinking of is the body" It divides the philosophy of: 1. Natural philosophy; 2. Civil philosophy - dealing with human society. All of Hobbes' philosophy follows this division that man is a dual being. A natural body, and by creating society, becomes an artificial being and participates in this life. For T. Hobbes, the philosophical cognition is clear, the nature of logic and logic is reduced to the general knowledge of things. Logical knowledge misleads all past, present and future facts under one common dimension.Hobbs does not accept Descartes for the innate ideas and the principle of T. Hobbs-only the attempt to connect the knowledge-man with the knowledgeable reality. Hobbs argues that the very fact of perceptual perception of objects itself speaks of the essence of external objective reality and the ability to reach sensory reality.

Hobbes views the experience as a set of sensory signs that only testify to the existence of objective reality, that is, subjective reality is not given in experience. "Scientific knowledge begins with the reason of the set of sensory signs ..." For Hobbes, the main philosophical task is to reveal the most general dimensions, the "universals," but is limited to a postulate - "the causes of the universals are self-evident, known by nature."

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