Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes: resumen de Chapter 3
Chapter 3 de 65 · Part 1: Of Man · 8 min para leer el chapter
In Chapter 3, the narrator explains how thoughts follow connections formed through sensation, distinguishing wandering sequences from searches directed by desire or purpose. He treats memory and prediction as uses of experience, stresses the uncertainty of natural foresight, and argues that imagination cannot reach beyond finite things available to the senses.
Qué sucede
- Thoughts follow connections established through sensation, even when their sequence appears random.
- Unguided thought wanders, while desire or fear directs thought toward an aim and the means of reaching it.
- Purposeful thinking searches for causes or effects, and remembering retraces earlier places, times, and actions.
- Prudence uses past experience and signs to predict outcomes, but predictions and reconstructions of the past remain uncertain.
- Speech and method develop natural mental powers, while imagination remains limited to finite things grounded in sensation.
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Natural foresight rests on experience rather than certainty. Greater familiarity supplies more signs, but prediction remains a guess.
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