{"title":"Hobbes’ theory of the experience: the man’s body and the body of the country on the background of the thing antology","authors":"Natalija Spasenko","doi":"10.31649/sent13.02.054","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":37673,"journal":{"name":"Sententiae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sententiae","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.31649/sent13.02.054","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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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Sententiae is historico-philosophical open access journal. Journal created by Modern philosophy''s research group (Pascalian society). Founded in 2000. Published twice a year, in June and December. Our purpose is to foster the development of a wide gamut of contemporary approaches, active implementation of them into research practice, and establishment of high standards of teaching philosophy basing on the achievements of contemporary history of philosophy. Our key priority is to ensure the empirical substantiation of historico-philosophical conceptions, basing on the criteria of literality, exhaustivity, contextuality and taking into account the existing speculative interpretations. Jean-Luc Marion was the first to formulate this set of criteria in 1998 as the main features of contemporary researches of Descartes''s philosophy. We regard these principles as the methodological background of any substantiated research method in the history of philosophy. Publishing materials on all historico-philosophical topics, we pay special attention to researches in terminology, issues of philosophical translation and untranslatability, manuscript researches (including handwritten heritage of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy professors of ХVІІ–ХVІІІ century), and cover the development of large-scale projects in this area. We also publish new bilingual and commented Ukrainian translations of classical foreign philosophical texts. Among our priorities there is also a coverage of the history of philosophical thought in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries and its relations to the wider cultural context (theology, literature, natural sciences, political ideology etc). The content of each issue is distributed according to Genre Sections and Thematic Headings. Currently there are 10 Genre Sections.