O wieloznaczności terminu „pojęcie” w filozofii Hobbesa

• Authors: Wawrzonkowski, Krzysztof

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On the Ambiguity of the Term “Conception” in Hobbes’s Philosophy

Abstracts

EN

The article presents some results of preparing a Polish translation of Thomas Hobbes’s first important work, Elements of law, natural and politic. I focus on explaining various meanings of the term “conception” as it is used by Hobbes in this writing. In his philosophy Hobbes uses the term in three different ways. The first of them refers to sense (or sensation) and image arising on sense organs as a result of the movement of external bodies mechanically affecting them. In its second meaning “conception” is understood as imagination, described also as a decaying sense. According to the third use of the term, “conception” is a state of understanding of something, or possessing a conception caused by speech (complex imagination). Such an undertaking makes it possible to reconstruct the development of the meaning of the term within the philosophy of Hobbes and the relation between his early and later writings, namely Elements of Law, Leviathan and De Corpore.

Keywords

EN

Hobbes; conception; Elements of law, natural and politic; pojęcie

• Publisher: Bialystok University Press
• Journal: IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 27/t.t.
• Pages: 255-270

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Wawrzonkowski, Krzysztof

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11320/4043

DOI

10.15290/idea.2015.27.t.t.15