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hobbes descartes and the science of man

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Philosophy

 

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July 17, 2013

 

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"Hobbes wished to be seen as the inventor of the science of politics" (Sorell, p45) He went about this by looking at the psychology of man and discovering that man is a mechanism. Hobbes wanted to understand mechanics. He wanted to look at why men live the way that they do in society and therefore, breaks it down...
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He wanted to look at why men live the way that they do in society and therefore, breaks it down. By doing this he discovered that people are cogs in the social machine. Therefore he wants to examine these cogs in order to achieve an understanding of the social mechanism, and does this by looking at the psychology of the mind...
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