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4 hours ago · Dialoguing with Hobbes. ⸺. May 21, 2024. “In my work Leviathan, I propose that without the structure of society, humans are driven by self-preservation and desire for power. In such a state, life would be ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.’. “Cooperation can be a strategy for survival and achieving personal goals.
4 hours ago · "Culture, Religion, War, and Peace" published on by Oxford University Press.
I’m giving a close read to MacIntyre’s “After Virtue,” which I find fascinating. But I’m not very persuaded by MacIntyre’s argument on why emotivism fails. This is a central argument for his whole thesis, so I think it’s essential for him to get this right (and for me to understand it!) I find his “sociology” of emotivism ...
1 day ago · Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least ...
4 hours ago · So it is not a big step to do something of the same structure of folding in the exterior divine into the human social co-existence. In 1651, a century after Vesalius’ atlas of anatomy, Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan. The book is regarded as the founding act of the theory of the state as a social contract.
4 hours ago · The question “What is humor?” has exercised in varying degrees such philosophers as Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer and Bergson and has traditionally been regarded as a philosophical question. And surely it must still be regarded as a philosophical question at least insofar as it is treated as a conceptual one. Footnote 18
1 day ago · Beyond fiction, many writers also find inspiration in non-fiction works, philosophy, history, and science. For example, George Orwell’s political writings were heavily influenced by his experiences and observations of totalitarianism, as well as his readings of political philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and George Bernard Shaw.
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