Hobbes’ theory of the experience: the man’s body and the body of the country on the background of the thing antology

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  • Natalija Spasenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

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https://doi.org/10.31649/sent13.02.054

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science, mind, cognition, sensation

Abstract

According to the author, T. Hobbes' theory of experience should be viewed in the context of his new ontological assumptions made under the influence of G. Galilei and the operational concept of science. Limiting the influence of final causes to the sphere of motivation leads to a material ontology of the mind. This makes it impossible to build a balanced theory of experience: Hobbes focuses too much on the criteria of individualisation of the subject of experience (based on the body principle) at the expense of the unity of common experience. Concluding on the specificity of Hobbes' political ontology, the author argues that the specificity arises from the radical atomisation of the speech ontology with the removal of the principle of causality from it.

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Spasenko, N. (2005). Hobbes’ theory of the experience: the man’s body and the body of the country on the background of the thing antology. Sententiae, 13(2), 54–72. https://doi.org/10.31649/sent13.02.054

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