I've been reading a biography of Thomas Hobbes written by an analytic philosopher1 and it's a pretty good way to get to the gist of his major ideas and their shortcomings. I'm still looking for historical precedents to our modern wingnuts and Hobbes provides a couple of examples. Like the Social Darwinists and the neo-con war whores, Hobbes thinks that a hard life makes the "bravest men" and the "greatest fortune." (page 32) Like the neo-cons, he also blames the universities for spreading seditious ideas. (page 178)
1Hobbes a biography / A.P. Martinich.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1999.
xvi, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0521495830 (hardback)
Saturday, February 06, 2010
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