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Updated: May 20, 2025
Neither formal nor final causes exist, but only efficient causes. And as bodies and their changes constitute the only objects of philosophy, so the mathematical method is the only correct method. There are two kinds of bodies: natural bodies, which man finds in nature, and artificial bodies, which he himself produces. By the latter Hobbes refers especially to the state as a human artefact.
Inheritance, social pressure, excitement, interest, love, hate, self-interest, duty and obligation, these are not unitary in the least and there is constantly a false dissection to be made, an artefact, in order that clearness in presentation may be obtained. We see men as discharging energy in work and play, in the activities that help or hurt themselves and the race.
Thus abstract general ideas and generic concepts arise, to which nothing real corresponds, for in reality particulars alone exist. The universal is a human artefact.
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