Question

This text promotes a philosophy of “universal mechanism” in its opening section, which calls the “heart” a “spring” and the “joints,” “wheels.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Thomas Hobbes work that describes life in the “state of nature” as “solitary,” “brutish,” “nasty,” and generally not so Raven.
ANSWER: Leviathan or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
[10h] This contemporary of Hobbes endorsed a materialist worldview, but rejected his mechanical philosophy. This author of Philosophical Fancies proposed a form of panpsychism in which all objects possessed “sensitive spirits.”
ANSWER: Margaret Cavendish
[10m] Cavendish’s “vitalism” shares commonalities with the ideas of this philosophical school. The author of Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Anne Conway, was educated by a member of this school.
ANSWER: Cambridge Platonists [prompt on Cambridge University] (Anne Conway’s teacher was Henry More.)
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