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

in #godflesh6 years ago (edited)

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." It does not explain this self-evidentness. properties and relationships, their causes can be limited to a general one - the movement of bodies (underlying mechanics).

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There is a formal-logical contrast in Hobbs's production of analytical and synthetic knowledge. IP Opportunity for a synthetic method implies general dimensions, principles. They have to be evolved through experience, and yet Hobbes affirms that in the experience of man the objective reality is not given, the experience can not follow anything in general. It is not possible to answer the question of what guarantees the universality of any scientific knowledge as unity of analytical and synthetic. Hobbs accept that they have the right to exist but have different addresses. Hobbs asserts that experience is the only sphere that can tell us something about the order and the quality of things from the objective reality.

The object itself must cause certain images, that is, the objective must be reduced to a stretching existence. => objective reality = many bodies. Indeed, only the material bodies and their interrelations exist. Definition of the body - "Body is what does not depend on our consciousness ..."The subject of all sciences is movement. But it reduces movement to mechanical external movement. It distinguishes the space and the human image of space. The proclamation of bodies for the only real existence is the essence of Hobbes' nominalism with a materialistic reading.

Hobbes rejects all the essences that are opposed to the real existence of things. Only the body may be recognized as a substance. In the human sensory experience, the body presents itself through its accusations. "A certain ability of the body, through which it gives us the idea of ​​ourselves."Hobbes' mechanics is manifested in substance and accent. It is manifested and it is necessary to change the qualities, not the object as such. The acceditation is accessible to man.

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