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16 May 2012, 9:58 am
--Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War(Thomas Hobbes trans.) [read post]
13 Feb 2007, 8:34 am
Again, there is a strong tradition here in Western thought, including Roger Williams, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Spinoza, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Moses Mendelssohn (whose writings ought to be much better known than they are), and John Rawls. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 10:19 pm
This fact of reliance - the fact of the deep significance of reliance in our lives - is a central theme of Thomas Hobbes' argument that in the state of nature, where it is irrational to rely upon others to keep their covenants, there is infamously "no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society… and the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 10:09 am
Hobbs (Arkansas) was announced. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 9:40 pm
I'm suspicious when philosophers mention Hobbes and not Rousseau when talking about social contracts. [read post]
28 Apr 2007, 3:41 pm
" Below the fold: The books I used to create this post, this time with authors attached.Sources/Summer Reading List Concerning Education, John Locke On the Origin of Inequality, Jean Jacques Rousseau The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God, Immanuel Kant Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre Human All Too Human, Friedrich Nietzsche The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson Improvement of the Understanding, Baruch Spinoza A Critique of Practical Reason,… [read post]
7 Feb 2021, 4:00 pm
Locke, like Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau, made great use of the state nature. [read post]
19 Jun 2021, 5:00 pm
Thomas Hobbes, another contractarian, said there were no such rights. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 3:23 am
As this NY Times article reports, the life of even a relatively high-income NFL football player is no picnic: [F]ootball players' careers resemble life as Thomas Hobbes described it in the 17th century: they're nasty, brutish and short. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 5:00 am
For one thing, life on the Internet is a state of nature that Thomas Hobbes would recognize. [read post]
11 Dec 2010, 2:20 pm
This question has preoccupied philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 5:30 pm
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10 Feb 2012, 10:32 am
Thomas recently pleaded guilty to federal charges in Washington. [read post]
11 Jul 2022, 2:59 pm
(After the silent Justice Thomas, Sotomayor usually garners the fewest laugh lines at the Supreme Court.) [read post]
15 Jul 2008, 10:24 pm
Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan, Ch. 21. [read post]
24 Jul 2011, 5:26 am
Classical Social Contract Theory The classical social contract tradition is most strongly associated with Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 5:00 am
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7 Oct 2018, 8:44 am
Thomas Hobbes argues in the Leviathan that laughter arises from feeling superior, and that it's an extension of a feeling of 'sudden glory' arising from recognizing someone else's comparative defect or weakness.... [read post]
10 May 2011, 9:50 am
Among his major contributions were his revisions of the natural law theories of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes.Born in Saxony of a Lutheran pastor in 1632, Pufendorf studied theology at the University of Leipzig before turning to the study of law at the University Jena where he read Hobbes and Grotius. [read post]
