Premium Content Social Fragmentation in the Leviathan: A Critique of Hobbes
By Anonymous - December 13, 2002
Hobbes begins Leviathan, a primarily political work, with a description of man, whom he sees as an isolated unit, a mechanical automaton whose only connection to the outside world is through the senses. Even his thoughts are determined by external objects whose effect is translated by sensation, "for there is no conception in a manâÂÂs mind…
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