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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 01:43 PM Original message |
Can anyone explain what the fuck Thomas Hobbes was talking about? |
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DoBotherMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. It only works if the Dali Lama, Gandhi, The Buddha, Carl Sagan, and Jesus |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well, you have to understand that Hobbes wrote Leviathan during the English Civil War. |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. He must have been a real joy to have around. |
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GumboYaYa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. reading Hobbes will make you feel like a Freeper. |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. That, or it gives you a healthy fear of Freepers. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. And Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" was a kinder, more moral response to the ugly world |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:56 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. Seriously. I am reading lots of Hobbes info online and he just creeps me out. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. Like Locke He Had A Rather Limited View Of Government |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
6. Maybe this will help. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:25 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Or look at Somalia and it's pirates. |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:57 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. He looks like David Crosby except that he looks as if he rips off rat's heads with his teeth |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
9. Basically, people suck nt |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 04:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them;. . . |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
14. Hobbes' stuff is a bunch of Authoritarian garbage contradicted by modern sociology and anthropology. |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 10:49 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. "Humans naturally form egalitarian, participatory communities" Really? |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
15. Hobbes isn't so much about those positive rights |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 07:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Seems like that's where the republican party is headed |
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sfwriter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
17. He was a stuffed tiger, right? EOM |
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