Module 1 Week 1 James

(Apologies on the timing of this submission, between the Immersion which I just got back from and a hectic job schedule I didn't plan time to write this post effectively enough.)

The first three chapters of Leviathan lay the foundations for how Thomas Hobbes perceives humanity to be. He describes imagination, dreams, and memories among other themes in an attempt to demonstrate how the world is seen and analyzed from the human eye. He brings forth the notion that there is inertia in all aspects of life and that this inertia extends to the realm of the mind as well. For example he uses the metaphor of the wind pushing water and that even when the wind dies waves born of this wind still push forward. Much like the wind, human experience pushes forward in our own psyche and creates imagination long after the experience has finished.

One concept that stood out to me was when the author mentioned that if there was no superstition, witch craft, and a fear of spirits that people would be more civilly obedient. I thought that particular was insightful, and lends itself to an open ended interpretation. My main takeaway from that particular section is that those who believe in the fantastic are more prone to illogical and unpredictable actions, and therefore a detriment to civil society on a whole, however that it a bit of my own personal inference.