Sorry to be so long replying on Hobbes. I have been
meditating a decent response.
Ed says:
... I must say Ive never felt comfortable with
Hobbes articulation of man in the state of nature. It
depicts man as solitary, acting only to satisfy himself,
being nothing more than an organic
[I want to rewrite two short paragraphs at the end in order
to emphasize that we are not *necessarily* acting alone in
trying to being down a regime we believe must be destroyed.]
Does this mean there can be no grounds for revolution? no
such thing as a bad king who *therefore* ought not to be
Arthur,
At 16:16 04/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
As
my colleague who was born in India says, the first picture of a Canadian
child dying with a distended belly will be the spark that ignites
governments to end this current (farcical) set of
activities.
There will be no
starvation in Canada. There
Gerard Baker wrote an article last week in the FT mainly talking
about Bush and American politics (if I remember rightly). A letter in
today's FT refers:
We all want a smarter man at the top
From Mr. Derek Roper
Sir, Gerard Baker ( 'This the season to
loathe the president, December 4) writes:
Tor,
At 00:59 05/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
The essay says: Similarly, Norway's supposedly separate rainy-day
fund, financed from oil and gas revenues, was raided in 2001 to meet
immediate budgetary pressures
It is wrong. It si decided that not more money shall be taken from the
fund than goes
So far, Li Ka-shing, an Hong Kong billionaire has not made
his money by growing business but by buying and selling them. He
started life by selling plastic flowers in the street. Presumably he then
bought the plastic flower stall next to him, sold it at a profit, and so
on. He is now one of the
Norway has now a conservative governement, and it
might last until the next election, but it has lost most og its support; the
conservative party is down to 16% on the gallups, and its two partners are also
reduced to half of what they got in the election. But they are spending oilmoney
I guess my question has to do with Hobbes's basic sense of human nature. If,
as I understand him, he believes that our nature is to act only in our
self-interest, and if that self interest has to do only with our physical
and material preservation, why would he care to inform us, as Stephen has so
Title: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade
As I
said. There is no incentive to change. I hate to say it but food
banks are part of the problem.
arthur
But what's the
solution? People that use the foodbanks are not activists. Most have
Thank you, Stephen. It makes one think about the darkness
that Hobbes was trying to penetrate. I have a PBS video on the life of Napoleon
that I watched the other night. What struck me was how quickly a people who, on
the basis of the equality and rights of all men, beheaded a king, shifted
Three from Center
for American Progress, Dec. 05, 2003.
COAL IN THE STOCKINGS: With only
twenty shopping days left until Christmas, disappointing retail sales have
suggested to many analysts that this shopping season may not be as good
as some retailers hoped a month or two ago. And the
Keith:
A BI sounds wonderful but it is a
theoretical solution that runs absolutely counter to human nature. Human
society is about relative status. Not only human society, but primate society.
And not only primate society but any social mammalian society. We really need
to
Ed Weick wrote:
Status may be very important in American and European society, but I've
dealt with small societies in northern Canada in which a person's
importance depended on what he or she could do for the community.
A modern example of that is the Open Source programming community.
As
So, would America be doing such a thing if there was still a cold war and we
had to put on a pretty face for the rest of the world compared to the
terrible KGB and Soviet detention?We should have seen this coming when
the Republicans began to write their House bills in Soviet Agit-prop
Ed,
At 14:31 05/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Keith:
A BI sounds wonderful but it is a theoretical solution that runs
absolutely counter to human nature. Human society is about relative
status. Not only human society, but primate society. And not only primate
society but any social mammalian
Harry won't understand it and Keith will but I'm going to post it
anyway. I'm still dealing with Reagan's tax program in the
arts. This Republican program can reduce us to the point where
nothing matters. We will become just as sociopathic as they
are.
REH
December 5, 2003OP-ED
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Don Cameron wrote:
Hi Franklin,
I notice you are posting to half-a-dozen list-servs plus a few individuals
simultaneously... this is possibly why I have no idea what the background to
your post is (even though it sounds like it might be interesting)... could
you
Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
So, would America be doing such a thing if there was still a cold war and we
had to put on a pretty face for the rest of the world compared to the
terrible KGB and Soviet detention?We should have seen this coming when
the Republicans began to write their House bills
Volkswagen is advertising a new factory in Dresden,
with the theme of:
transparency
See: http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/
You will probably guess that this idea appeals to me, along
with the location of the factory in Dresden (why couldn't
they have built it in Newark NJ USA, or maybe even
Harry Pollard wrote:
Brad,
George suggested in his Law of Human Progress that the Progress
of Civilization depended on Association in Equality.
In my courses I use the more positive term cooperation rather
than association but I think association is better. Equality
doesn't mean we are all the
In 1980 I was at a party in the home of a prominent
physicist at Los Alamos New Mexico. They were all talking about the
efficacy of Nuclear power and how they could build a perfect power plant but not
perfect people to run it. It was an "in" joke for the
yahoos. One turned to me and asked
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