Hobbes stripped matter of all inherent activity and power

Evidence

Whereas in the “Little Treatise,” Hobbes had retained the possibility of an inherent active power, in De Corpore he said all action came from the prior motion of a contiguous body. Here, Hobbes referred to the active power of the mover, but this was not an inherent activity. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 808

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hobbes reduced human free will, appetite, and liberty to mechanical motion — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 810; Hobbes’s exclusion of humanity from politics is the prerequisite for all race doctrines — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 427; Hobbes supplied the theoretical premise of excluding humanity that race doctrines need

Broader Connections

• Hobbes reduced human free will, appetite, and liberty to mechanical motion #expands (0.85) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 810
• Hobbes’s exclusion of humanity from politics is the prerequisite for all race doctrines #expands (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 427
• Hobbes supplied the theoretical premise of excluding humanity that race doctrines need #expands (0.75)