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Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan v2(1997, Touchstone) - libgen.lc.pdf

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9: Everything we know comes from our senses.

11: Imagination is a decaying sense – it is the afterimage of what we perceive through our sense, like picturing the moon in our imagination during the day.

14: A wise man is one who can discern evil.

18: Everything we imagine is finite (for it follows our senses) and therefore we cannot perceive the infinite. The infinite is something we are unable to conceive the ends and bounds of. E.g. God.

22: The truth is merely an expression assisted by unanimous definitions. To be truthful, and thus precise, words must only define one thing and should not have synonyms for they only obscure the truth and creates a nebula of legalese manipulation.

27: Reason is not always right and just because a decision is unanimous does not make it well cast up.

40: It is impossible to know a fact absolutely; science is merely the knowledge of consequence which is not absolute, but conditional.

42: We only believe in the faith of men. If we believe in God, we must first trust that the one who told us about god. I.e. Livy said God made a cow speak, if we don't believe this to be true, we do not doubt God's power but distrust Livy.

51: Knowledge of facts is only sense and memory

53: Power of man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good, and is either original or instrumental. The greatest human power is unity – especially when one man has the power of an entire nation at his bidding.

54: The value of a person is the price he is willing to rent his power for. This value is dependent on the buyer, not the seller as the sellers power value fluctuates on how well it adapts to the required task.