![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Hobbes, the proper way to understand all men is to turn our thoughts inward and study one man (namely oneself), for to understand the thoughts, desires, and reasons of ourselves is to understand them in all mankind. To extend the metaphor, the sovereign of the state is like the soul of a man the magistrates of the state like a man's joints and the rewards and punishments doled out by the state like the nerves of man. To begin his project, Hobbes argues that to understand the state we first need to understand mankind, since the state is nothing but an artificial man. Hobbes saw the purpose of the Leviathan as explaining the concepts of man and citizenship he conceved of the work as contributing to a larger, three-pronged philosophical project that would explain nature in addition to these two phenomena. ![]()
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