Selma Singer wrote:
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
Stephen Straker wrote:
Selma Singer wrote:
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
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I guess my question has to do with Hobbes's basic
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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
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Selma,
I am not very keen about the Hobbesian
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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
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
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Sorry to be so long replying on Hobbes. I have been
meditating
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
