Political Science · Western Political Thought
For whom is 'all existence simply a matter in motion'?
APlato
BHobbes ✓ Correct
CT.H. Green
DRousseau
Correct answer: (B) Hobbes — For Thomas Hobbes all existence is matter in motion, so the answer is Hobbes.
Explanation
★For Thomas Hobbes all existence is matter in motion, so the answer is Hobbes.
★Hobbes was a thoroughgoing materialist who explained the world mechanically.
★For him even thought and sensation are forms of internal motion in the body.
★Human desire and aversion are just motions of approach and withdrawal.
★This materialist science of motion underlies his account of human nature.
★From it follows his bleak picture of the state of nature as restless competition.
★Plato, Green and Rousseau were idealists or moralists, not such mechanical materialists.
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