Hobbes' starting place: suspend all your usual obligations, which are based on tradition, emotion, and religious and family authority
D. dissolved the traditional "order of topics" that connect areas of study
H. dissolved the traditional "bonds of obligation" that connect subjects, families
D's Foundation: Certainty of your existence
H's Foundation: Interest in your own life
D invented the concept of "internal mental experience"
H invented the concept of "rational self-interest"
D's problem: how to reach agreement?
H's problem: how to reach cooperation?
D needed to build a stable, lasting science
H needed to build a stable, lasting social order
D used demonstrations to reach certainty
H used demonstrations to reach certainty
D sought to reconstitute human knowledge as based on rational acceptance
H sought to reconstitute human society as based on rational consent
