I'm taking a Government class this term and part of one of my assignments this week is to read and write a summary about the first two chapters of John Hobbes Leviathan. The entire book is basically (from what I understand) his thoughts about the role of government. I may be mistaken but I believe Hobbes was a proponent of a strong central government. Has anyone read any of this work? From what I can gather the first two chapters are about natural order beginning with how objects affect our senses which allows us to progress to other states such as imagination, memory, and understanding and that how we perceive objects affects our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Does that sound right? Or am I way off base? I have a hard time reading things written in the 1600s and 1700s because I find it so tedious.