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In this chapter, I have argued that Hobbes’s philosophical method is integral to his project of separating philosophy and religion so as to put morals on a true scientific foundation. I have clarified what Hobbes means by “science,” “method,” and “demonstration,” showing that the common attribution of a mechanistic method of resolution to Hobbes is incorrect. Building on recent views regarding whether Hobbes has a unified method for theoretical and practical philosophy I add to available interpretations by drawing on Hobbes’s context. Like contemporaneous methods, Hobbes’s method comprises a universal and a particular method. This distinction sheds light on how analysis and synthesis function in each branch of Hobbes’s method in a way that serves to unify and place both theoretical and practical philosophy on a scientific basis.