Finding solace in Hobbesian World?
From the Blog umertoorFinally finished reading commentary of Frederick Copleston - indeed a very comprehensive and thought provoking one from phil-legal p.o.v - on *Leviathan *of Thomas Hobbes. Being a highly insecure person who wonders why people with greater physical or other types of might put up with meek people say while going on road or while making a bargain, i found my intuition about an instinctively warring human nature confirmed in Hobbes' book. His idea of an all powerfull, illimitable, indivisible Sovereign State rests of following premises: In the state of nature (where every man is for himself / "atomic individualism") > all men are at war against all in self-perservation; In such state, one's reason and conscience is the judge of good and bad; There can be no peace and security in supakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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