Polemic Against Aristotle and the Scholastics

From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes attacks Aristotelian metaphysics, separated essences, and scholastic philosophy as a chief source of political disorder and intellectual confusion.
Part IV, Chapter 46
Of Darknesse from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous Traditions' - sustained attack on Aristotle and the Schools: 'I beleeve that scarce any thing can be more absurdly said in naturall Philosophy, than that which now is called Aristotles Metaphysiques.
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Part IV, Chapter 47

Identifies the 'Kingdome of Darknesse' as the confederacy of deceivers using erroneous doctrines to extinguish the light of natural and gospel truth.

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