One of the earliest thinkers of systematic political thought is Thomas Hobbes, who dealt with the human being as a whole and tried to create one of the first rational accounts of human being. Many authors writing on Hobbes evaluated his conceptualization of human being as a materialistic or mechanistic attempt. However, I think that Hobbes’ whole importance in terms of political theory lays in his mathematical (rather than mechanistic) understanding of human being, which sometimes clearly contradicts, with the mechanistic attempts to grasp human motion. In fact he starts from the tiny elements of human thought and tries to reach the most complex actions of human begins, that of ethics. However unlike the previous Aristotelian inner logic, which creates a consistent understanding for each action and object and enables observers to reach the result immediately and definitely, Hobbes proposed a more plain set of premises, which allow us to conceptualize the different paths of human motion and complexity. For instance, where as the Aristotelian system explains the images of object created in human min
His importance lies in his system where he moved from the tiny elements and reaches the general consequences without making a reference to metaphysical objects and his ability of rationalize this causal flow.
d, as the result of sent signs from the object, which caught by the eyes, Hobbes puts the senses in the objective realm but men’s ability to observe in a subjective one, which gives the possibility of explaining the difference in the created images without falling in to inconsistency as it was the case in Aristotle. I.e. although the accidents of the object is same their imaginations in human mind is various depending on humans physical capacities and process of mental discourse.
Hobbes similarly explains human action. Specific desires and appetites arise in the human body and are experienced as discomforts or pains, which must be overcome. Thus, each of us is motivated to act in such way as we believe likely to relieve our discomfort, to preserve and promote our own well-being. Everything we choose to do is strictly determined by this natural inclination to relieve the physical pressure
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