Hobbes says that appetites, and aversions, are raised by foresight of the good and evil consequences. To do so we need to begin with Hobbes s views about reason and science. We begin first with precise definitions, and then, through observation, we can generalize about how the things we have named and defined with our definitions are actually connected in our experience. And from these assertions we may draw further consequences or conclusions, using our reason. IX Now, finally, we can turn to trying to grasp what Hobbes's overall project in Leviathan actually is.
Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man.
And the two will have to be related, since the very existence of the state depends on the obligation of contracts, and that obligation will itself have to be explained as part of ethics.