Hobbes's Leviathan



Hobbes's Leviathan

Introduction

Hobbes feels boundless contempt for scholasticism. This particular excerpt of Leviathan and many more of his works are filled with little allusions towards the “frequency of insignificant speech” in relation to the scholastics that combine the Aristotelian metaphysics with Christian Theology. Hobbes is insistent that even though he is not an atheist, he is of the belief that religion should be kept separately from politics.

He is determined that insignificant speech should be avoided but at the same time he admires the newly discovered physical sciences as well as geometry. He admires the deductive science, the one which ...