Hobbes acknowledges the importance of having understanding of such things as the voluntary motions produced by imagination. These endeavors move us toward desires with the added skill of knowing how to read others, stemming from the ability to know oneself or read oneself. This proves beneficial when it comes down to attaining the main desire of many men, which is financial or security related. Hobbes equates strength with wealth. Aristotle argues wealth is too superficial to be what we seek, claiming wealth is not the good we seek, the good we divine to be. Aristotle proclaims success or failure in life does not depend on one’s accumulated fortune. This tool is a mere additional resource, useful only for the sake of something else. Hobbes
