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“The end of knowledge is power;”

Thomas Hobbes

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Hobbes defines philosophical inquiry by practical use: knowledge of causes matters because it enables people to produce effects and accomplish things.

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Thomas Hobbes, De Corpore / Elements of Philosophy, Part I, Chapter I, section 6, represented in The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, Project Gutenberg #73877. 'The end of knowledge is power' is immediately developed through the use of theorems for construction and action; it remains Hobbes's seventeenth-century account of philosophy's utility.

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