| 单词 | Hobbes |
| 例句 | But for the moment let us concentrate on the last phrase: ‘Hobbes was right.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not from Hobbes, whose key discussions of the subject were at this point available only in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hobbes would not have said that we derive our knowledge of the kings of France from authority; he would have said we derive it immediately from testimony and, ultimately, from sense experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes, although he was not an atomist, had developed a materialist, Epicurean philosophy which was universally understood to be hostile to religion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Teddy, a kindergartner back then, sat in my bedroom, pulling the Calvin and Hobbes books down from the shelves and pretending to read them. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hooke, Glanvill, Hobbes, Power and Wallis were participants in this transformation; but their understanding of what was taking place was shared by well-informed bystanders. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, their argument depends on a profound misunderstanding of Hobbes’s text. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All three—Hobbes, Digby and Charleton—had a great deal of reading in common, reading which surely included Montaigne, Galileo and Bacon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hobbes was not right about science: in science, as far as they are concerned, there is no right or wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes, writing in 1655, thought that there was no astronomy worth the name before Copernicus, no physics before Galileo, no physiology before William Harvey. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But if Hobbes was excluded from the Society, might the word ‘fact’ not also have been excluded? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Both Hobbes and Wittgenstein, they want to argue, grasped that a form of knowledge implies a form of social order and vice versa. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nor that Hobbes’s source for his claim that the life of men outside society is “solitary, nasty, poor, brutal, and short” was “the savage people in many places of America.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, we cannot identify G. W. with any confidence, but the likelihood is that he had been reading Hobbes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Digby, a friend of Hobbes and a founding member of the Royal Society, played a crucial role in popularizing the word ‘fact’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hobbes stripped the human personality for any capacity for love or tenderness or even simple fellow- feeling, leaving instead only fear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Here Hobbes distinguishes between two types of knowledge: science, which is, as Hume would later say, about the relationship between ideas; and what he calls prudence, which is about facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As Hobbes remarked of his friend, ‘Roberval has this peculiarity: whenever people publish any remarkable theorem they have discovered, he immediately announces, in papers which he distributes, that he discovered it first.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hobbes was the first serious philosopher of the fact because he understood facts, but he did not trust them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes had worried about a state of nature that was “poor, nasty, brutish and short”; Galton was concerned about a future state overrun by genetic inferiors: poor, nasty, British—and short. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the case of the king, he makes a particular kind of choice of expert, in that he licenses people to practice—above all, in Hobbes’s world, he licenses the clergy to preach. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The question I ask is not ‘Were Regiomontanus and Hobbes right about mathematics?’ but ‘How did their understanding of mathematics help lay the groundwork for reliable scientific knowledge?’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Especially because I don’t precisely know who Hobbes and Rousseau are—but not knowing and admitting you don’t know are two completely different things. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Instead, as we moved from one relic to the next, they debated philosophy—Hobbes and Descartes, Aquinas and Machiavelli. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The first thing I read are comics about Calvin and Hobbes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Earlier that year Joseph Glanvill published his The Vanity of Dogmatizing, in which he criticized Hobbes but praised Digby, in the process taking over his use of the phrase ‘matter of fact’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Someone said something about Hobbes, and without thinking I recited a line from Mill. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There is a delicious irony in this because Hobbes believed factual knowledge was a truly inferior kind of knowledge, science consisting solely of deductive knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1630 Thomas Hobbes, who had received a conventional humanistic and scholastic education at Oxford, came across a copy of Euclid’s Elements ‘in a gentleman’s library’ in Geneva. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thus they legitimize a profoundly anachronistic reading of the dispute between Hobbes and Boyle by placing their own view of that dispute into the mouth of Hobbes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The ambiguous usages of Noah Biggs and Alexander Ross, discussed earlier, also follow the publication of Hobbes’s Humane Nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What Hobbes had realized is that nothing is more certain than the truths of mathematics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If the members of a particular “society” never behave cooperatively, their lives are likely to be, in Thomas Hobbes’s words, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Not quite isolated; among Galileo’s visitors in his last years were Thomas Hobbes and John Milton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But if we look at England in 1658, the year Cromwell dies, facts are now newly established in the language, thanks not to the friends of Hobbes, but to Pascal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the England of Hobbes’s day you needed to be licensed to teach in a school, and you could only teach Latin from the authorized textbook, Lily’s Grammar. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hobbes’s point is not that expertise is whatever the sovereign says it is; it is that non-experts can be competent to select experts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hobbes was no more committed to the supposed Wittgensteinian view of truth than the GMC are. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hobbes, as we have seen, knew both Bacon and Galileo. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Scientists used to quote a phrase of Thomas Hobbes’s in order to characterize the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers as “nasty, brutish, and short.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the case of geometry and the state, on Hobbes’s view, we can know for sure why something is the case because neither geometry or the state would exist if we had not constructed them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What, then, makes it permissible for them to say ‘Hobbes was right’? The answer is simple. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hobbes stripped the human personality for any capacity for love or tenderness or even simple fellow- feeling, leaving instead only fear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z What Hobbes is writing about here is not truth, but authorization. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hobbes, for his part, neatly distinguishes experiment from experience, but not as we do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps he's destined to join Garfield, the Cheshire Cat, and Hobbes in the pantheon of talking felines. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Puss in Boots' 2011-10-27T12:53:24Z Lewis covers over parts of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips to create his own enigmatic little narratives. At LAXArt, boundary-blurring drawing as a form of sculpture 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z “I’m convinced that licensing would sell out the soul of ‘Calvin and Hobbes,’” Watterson said in the same article. Searching for Bill Watterson 2013-04-07T17:00:00Z Last month, Cynthia Nixon, whom you may remember from her iconic turn as uptight lawyer Miranda Hobbes on HBO’s “Sex and the City,” lost her bid for New York governor. Perspective | Famous and female: Why actresses can’t break into the real-life role of politician 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Aubrey is best known for his “Brief Lives,” a collection of short and informal biographies of eminent 17th-century men like Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare. You Remember John Aubrey. Chased by Debt Collectors, Chaser of Whores. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “Most of us have confidence that we understand these wellness issues, but we don’t realize that we’re literally just regurgitating things that we saw in a Nike commercial,” Mr. Hobbes added. Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Replace Job's devil with Hobbes' state, and what you get is an ordinary guy ground into nothing by wheels of all sizes. With 83 foreign films in Oscar contention, a look at six standouts 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes’s symbol for the mass of ordinary people who make up a society.” ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers and the Return of 'The Unwritten' 2012-01-13T18:40:28Z The flights and fancies of Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” grew out of the fertile dreams and nightmares of “Little Nemo.” ArtsBeat: Sunday Morning Mayhem 2013-12-27T16:22:46Z Ms. Nixon starred in “Sex and the City” as Miranda Hobbes. Modern Love Podcast: Cynthia Nixon Reads ‘Dear Dad: We’ve Been Gay for a Really Long Time’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Organisers hope to build on a successful festival celebrating the life and work of the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who was from the area. Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z For her performance — a clear departure from her signature role as the wisecracking, high-powered, designer-dudded lawyer Miranda Hobbes on "Sex and the City" — Nixon said she didn't draw much on her own cancer experience. Cynthia Nixon in Seattle talks cancer, same-sex marriage 2012-06-14T04:08:04Z It's an ugly portrait of Hobbes' social contract gone wrong, in which the citizen surrenders more than a little liberty and gains even less than he bargained for in exchange. With 83 foreign films in Oscar contention, a look at six standouts 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Jonathan went on to note that the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" often serves as inspiration for their family Christmas cards, along with the Photoshop skills he’s gained as a digital marketer. Family's funny Christmas card tradition embraces holiday chaos: 'What parenting really felt like' 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s like if you were to put yourself in a duplicator machine, like in “Calvin and Hobbes.” ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Watterson, beloved for his portrayal of the troublemaker Calvin and the animated stuffed tiger Hobbes, is known considered by many the J.D. 'Calvin and Hobbes' Creator Pens First Comics in Nearly 2 Decades 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Mainly because of his mean tendencies — Greg is an older Calvin without the vulnerability of Hobbes — I finally banned the books until my kid reaches a less impressionable age. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Second Time is Charming 2011-03-24T15:55:00Z I am well versed in the theories of Locke and Hobbes on human nature and government, so I set to teaching my daughter some of the basics of Enlightenment thought. Motherlode Blog: When 'Help' With Homework Is Too Much 2013-02-03T14:22:47Z One answer to that question, found filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder, wasn’t actually a result of what appeared in original Calvin and Hobbes comics. What’s So Special About Calvin and Hobbes? 2013-11-15T10:45:17Z For instance, Thomas Hobbes viewed man in the state of nature as vicious and brutal. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z "The great philosophical writers of the past wrote for humanity," Blackburn begins, enumerating Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill and even Wittgenstein. Philosophy is supposed to be difficult 2011-02-25T12:01:28Z He diligently describes conditions at the time — life was nasty, brutish and short, to quote the 17th-century great Thomas Hobbes — to establish what a revolution in thought was under way. 'The Clockwork Universe': charting the workings of the 17th-century world 2011-03-16T22:19:04Z Thomas Hobbes himself could barely imagine what a monster church and state have become. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The strip’s humor, Liniers says, was influenced by “The Far Side,” “Calvin and Hobbes” and Argentine comics. Argentine Cartoonist’s Foray Into The New Yorker 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z And he follows that up with Jean-Jacque Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes references. A complete disregard of the greater good 2012-11-20T21:35:07Z For Mr. Hobbes, 39, who has done extensive reporting on obesity, watching his mother’s struggles led to an interest in weight fixation. Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The movie's title, "The Social Network," describes the opposite of Hobbes' State of Nature: a latticework of laws, traditions, social bonds and moral codes that binds one person to another and keeps civilization humming along. "The Social Network": A modern horror film 2010-10-04T18:01:00Z The “Fast and the Furious” series understandably chose to title its upcoming installment “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbes and Shaw” over its almost shocking actual numerical value: “Fast & Furious 9.” ‘Toy Story’ lives on, but should it have? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z In such expressions of liberalism, with their debt to Locke and Hobbes, the impact of the Enlightenment is palpable. Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Life for many in Wick World is, to borrow Hobbes’s formulation, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,” but it’s also sentimental and filled with friendships or at least alliances. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Gordon and Mr. Hobbes said they receive lots of positive feedback, but the emails they get from researchers and clinicians are some of the most meaningful. Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z It reminds me a bit of Calvin and Hobbes and his adventures as Spaceman Spiff. The Book Bunch - group review selection 2013-02-06T09:00:00Z “I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes,” Simon said. Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich 2013-01-04T21:32:05Z Navigating through Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau and more, Norman is adept at locating his subject. Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman – review 2013-05-19T09:00:02Z Nobody likes to be told that they’re wrong, and yet the journalists Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes have created a successful podcast by doing exactly that. 6 Podcasts for Reflection and Restoration 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z His latest movie continues this unremittingly gloomy odyssey in the middle ages when, as Thomas Hobbes put it, the life of man was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short". Valhalla Rising 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z Like Thomas Hobbes, they find it “solitary, poor, nasty brutish and short.” Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z Was there an English Enlightenment, a tradition of rationalism stretching from Bacon and Hobbes to Locke and Shaftesbury and eventually Paine and Wollstonecraft? The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review 2013-07-24T11:19:42Z I’m sure I’m oversimplifying here, but the gist is this: Thomas Hobbes believed that human beings are naturally ferocious, competitive killers; Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that we are born gentle, chill and kind. They’re Not Lost in the Woods, They’re Thriving 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z From Hobbes to Gandhi to Hannah Arendt, and touching on statecraft, revolutions and more, there’s much to dig into, whether you’re a would-be student, undergraduate, or just politically curious. From Hobbes to Gandhi, the history of ideas – podcasts of the week 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z When forerunners of Western democracy began emerging four hundred years ago, the philosophers Hobbes and Vico predicted they would inevitably lead to chaos and a return to all-powerful central control. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z With a playfully earnest touch, he lays psychological and philosophical foundations, referring to Hobbes and Nietzsche. | 'Order': Inner Demons Win in Horror Comedy at Kirk Theater 2010-06-24T21:35:00Z One precocious exception was by Margaret Cavendish of Newcastle, the second wife of Hobbes’s patron. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z In Hobbes’s “Leviathan,” he argues for absolute sovereign power as a defense against the state of nature and a life that is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” ‘Leviathan’ Turns on a Modern-Day Job 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Rawls continues the social contract tradition pioneered by the likes of Locke, Hobbes and most famously, Rousseau. A Theory of Justice by John Rawls - review 2011-08-27T08:00:00Z All the reporters hoped to score that elusive golden interview with the man behind “Calvin and Hobbes,” and all found that Watterson proved harder to find than anticipated. Searching for Bill Watterson 2013-04-07T17:00:00Z Poussey’s flashback shows her snuggled up with her mother, reading the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” aloud and stumbling over the word “pupate.” 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3 Premiere Recap: Mother's Day Visit 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Hobbes said the same: "I think not that their witchcraft is any real power; but yet that they are justly punished, for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief." Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z Watterson was determined that there would be no merchandising of Calvin and Hobbes, that his characters would not be turned into hucksters. The artists' artist: children's authors 2011-07-06T21:30:01Z Another dour Englishman, Thomas Hobbes, proclaimed life outside society as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Mr. Turner at Cannes: Portrait of the Artist as a Boar 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Another dour Englishman, Thomas Hobbes, proclaimed life as “nasty, brutish and short.” Review: Mr. Turner: A Sour Man With a Painterly Genius 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z He started listening to “Maintenance Phase” after learning about it on Mr. Hobbes’s other podcast, “You’re Wrong About.” Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z But Watterson’s ethical battle still wasn’t over — in fact, it would last well beyond the final “Calvin and Hobbes” panel he drew in December of 1995. Searching for Bill Watterson 2013-04-07T17:00:00Z And it looks to capture some of the sales magic of steroidal volumes like “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes” and “The Complete Far Side.” Books of The Times: Panel by Panel, a Graphic Record of Our Time 2010-12-23T22:32:24Z What followed was a week of photos, opinions, gratitude and — for relief — the occasional “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip. In Charlie Hebdo tragedy, the French ambassador finds his place in Washington 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z After Hobbes concluded that men were controlled by animal feelings that inevitably produced conflict, his proposed solution was to hand over power to an absolute monarch. Lost soul 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Malmesbury is the birthplace of Thomas Hobbes and is keen to turn itself into a "philosophy" town. The best festivals for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:09Z While staying in a sanatorium in RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire, he became preoccupied with books – consuming at random everything from translations of the classics to Hobbes, Descartes and Wittgenstein, and contemporary British fiction. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z The modern nation state – the Leviathan of the philosopher Hobbes – has had a civilising effect almost everywhere. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker – review 2012-11-19T07:02:01Z Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda Hobbes in the series, expressed her sorrow in a tweet. Beloved ‘Sex and the City’ actor Willie Garson dies at 57 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z It was so markedly different from that of another deeply felt, philosophical comic of my youth, “Calvin and Hobbes,” which visually and imaginatively bursts at the seams. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The third annual Hobbes festival concluded yesterday after two days of events in the town. Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z In each episode, Marshall and Hobbes explore the story of a person, event or situation that has been widely misunderstood, reveal the misconceptions and talk about why they took hold. 6 Podcasts for Reflection and Restoration 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z European philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes, seeking to build a foundation of truth that was separable from the vicissitudes of emotion, articulated sharp divisions between war and peace, mind and body. How the Mind-Body Connection Is Rewiring Our Politics 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Hobbes was joking, but serial killers and the podcasts devoted to them feed an ever growing true-crime industry worth millions of dollars. ‘Based on a True Story’: The Vogue of Killer Content 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Cynthia Nixon, the activist and actress who won an Emmy Award for her role as Miranda Hobbes in the hit HBO series “Sex and the City,” will host this year's National Book Awards. Cynthia Nixon will host this year's National Book Awards 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z The question of the special charm of Calvin and Hobbes will be, for many of the iconic comic strip’s fans, not a question at all. What’s So Special About Calvin and Hobbes? 2013-11-15T10:45:17Z The show presents “relatively radical ideas about this issue,” Mr. Hobbes said, but still tries to avoid alienating listeners. Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z There are illustrated manuscripts on display, and first editions by Milton, Hobbes, Dickens, Baudelaire and of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Clark collection tells the story of a privileged and peculiar life The words of 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes — if spoken by James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman — would have made an ominous opening voice-over for the new "Mad Max" film. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z No doubt it took a bit longer to formulate the ticklish notion that Edward Norton's nameless schizophrenic in Fight Club is a grown-up Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. The great big Pixar conspiracy 2013-07-17T16:15:47Z While health, weight and wellness are important issues, much of what Americans understand about them is actually hollow marketing, Mr. Hobbes said. Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Fortifying himself with a pint of Pigswill ale in the Whole Hog pub before heading off for a Hobbes lecture was business consultant Jon Gundry. Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” in Paris; for years René Descartes lived in the Netherlands. The role of ideas in the “great divergence” 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Calvin and Hobbes is a joyously inventive, high-energy celebration of an imagination untroubled by responsibility, consequences or even the laws of physics. The artists' artist: children's authors 2011-07-06T21:30:01Z Like Democritus, the Epicureans, Hobbes, and Gassendi, Locke believed the dynamics of pleasure and pain motivated humankind. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z And Bill Watterson, creator of the late lamented "Calvin and Hobbes" strips, said, in a speech honoring what would have been Kelly's 75th birthday, that there was nothing like "Pogo" for art, wit and imagination. Trailblazing 'Pogo' comic strips celebrated 2011-12-19T17:18:03Z “It was, like, this defining thing of my childhood that she was always on some completely nuts, unsustainable diet,” Mr. Hobbes said. Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z There was morality before the church, trade before the state, exchange before money, social contracts before Hobbes, welfare before the rights of man, culture before Babylon, self-interest before Adam Smith, and greed before capitalism. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z I read lots of newspaper comic collections, like “Calvin and Hobbes” and “The Far Side,” and an awful lot of “Star Wars” novels. Randall Munroe Loves Outdated Views of the Future 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z On one, a Calvin and Hobbes compendium sits next to William Burroughs’s “Naked Lunch.” In Pittsburgh, a Bookstore Where ‘Freewheeling Curiosity’ Reigns 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z He dismissed this strategy and followed Hobbes, pointing out that the very term “free will” was oxymoronic. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Locke, Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes are often lauded in traditional historical narratives for their defense of rights and freedoms. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Wright, for what it’s worth, has never heard of “Calvin and Hobbes” or seen the children’s books featuring that other Harold, but he calls Vonnegut “one of my heroes.” Why deadpan genius comic Steven Wright wrote a novel with no rules 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z He assigns his students readings from free-market political thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville. Christians, conservatives work to save traditional liberal arts 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z "Man is a wolf to man," wrote the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Where Is a Large Predator Most Likely to Attack You? 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z "Bigots aren't freaking out about drag queens reading to children because they're confused about the nature of these events," Michael Hobbes of the Maintenance Phase podcast recently tweeted. It's not about "the kids": GOP push family-friendly version of anti-LGBTQ agenda 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Instead they ended up asking her to add Thomas Hobbes, Vladimir Lenin and Friedrich Engels. Have the Anticapitalists Reached Harvard Business School? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z I suppose “Calvin and Hobbes” is no longer available. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This Kanye headline was all wrong 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z This means, as Purdy shows with a tour through political philosophy and political science from Hobbes and Rousseau to Robert Dahl and Samuel Huntington, that democratic citizens are simultaneously the rulers and the ruled. Review | A refreshing argument that democracy can be repaired — by us 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z As Thomas Hobbes, one of the greatest classical philosophers, openly says, there is nothing wrong with fear in politics. Liberal Politics Needs a Lifeline. Emotion Could Be it. 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z In the governor's race, Kari Lake, the former television anchor endorsed by Trump, is facing Democrat Kati Hobbes, the sitting Arizona secretary of state, for the governor's office. Arizona’s Latino voters and political independents could spell midterm defeats for MAGA candidates 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes’s view of the soul is materialistic, whereas Descartes’s view of the soul is nonphysical. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Any jury that actually follows the evidence should throw the case out, as investigative journalist and podcaster Michael Hobbes recently explained on Twitter. Amber Heard on trial: Johnny Depp's defamation case is radicalizing young men 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z To be sure, there are enough of these sorts of brutish battles going on in nature to make war-of-all-against-all theorist Thomas Hobbes smirk. Social Animals Seek Power in Surprisingly Complex Ways 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z As Hobbes notes on Twitter, this discourse is "being led by people whose jobs subject them to public criticism." What the New York Times doesn't get about free speech and "cancel culture" 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z As part of her campaign, Lake has attempted to paint Hobbes as someone who would be ineffective on border security. Arizona’s Latino voters and political independents could spell midterm defeats for MAGA candidates 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Hobbes believed that power should be held by the monarchy, arguing that one absolute and central authority is the best method of maintaining peace and avoiding discord and factionalism. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The figures in those pieces might look like thumbs, but the kids will tell you, “Those are my moms, that’s my little brother, and that’s our cat, Calvin. Hobbes, our other cat, died.” Opinion | I object to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill as a lesbian mom — and as a conservative 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The Enlightenment started from some key ideas put forth by two English political thinkers of the 1600s, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hobbes wrote that in earliest history humans lived in unbridled freedom, that is in a “state of nature,” in which no government existed and no person was subject to any superior power. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z One dates back to 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who held that life for uncivilized people was “nasty, brutish and short” and a “war of all against all.” Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The absence of a political authority conjures an image of the state of nature imagined by Thomas Hobbes—that is, a state of chaos. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “No one has suffered more than Miranda Hobbes. She is an entirely different person now. If she goes to one more ‘comedy concert,’ there’s no coming back.” Analysis | How Miranda went from ‘Sex and the City’s’ most relatable character to ‘And Just Like That’s’ most frustrating 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Hobbes called this agreement by which people created a government the social contract. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hobbes wrote that, according to the laws of nature, humans live freely and without authority, leaving weak people vulnerable to the aggression of others. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z We need strong leaders, Hobbes asserted, backed up by armed forces, to save us from our savage tendencies. Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z In the text, Hobbes imagines a time prior to the creation of social institutions, when humans were motivated solely by satisfying their desires. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z It was once a good thing to be the Miranda Hobbes of a friends group. Analysis | How Miranda went from ‘Sex and the City’s’ most relatable character to ‘And Just Like That’s’ most frustrating 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Because people acted in their own self-interest, Hobbes said, the ruler needed total power to keep citizens under control. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z English working-class conservatism, Mason argues, "remains broadly guided by a specifically Tory ethos going back to Thomas Hobbes": So what the hell happened to Boris Johnson — and can it happen to Donald Trump? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Hobbes, for obvious reasons, is popular with those who like the status quo. Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Prior to the establishment of political authority, there is no check on violence, and thus human beings enter a state of perpetual war, which Hobbes considers the state of nature. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Afterward, I feed you a bottle, change your diaper, read you some “Calvin and Hobbes,” we laugh, and I put you down for your morning nap. A letter to my baby girl about paid family medical leave 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Hobbes argued that to escape such a bleak life, people had to hand over their rights to a strong ruler. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael Hobbes announced in yesterday’s 20-minute episode that he’s ready for a change. The Daily’s founding producer, Theo Balcomb, is leaving the Times 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Rousseau’s view of humanity, like that of Hobbes, is far too simplistic. Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Similar to Hobbes, Locke imagines that people begin in the state of nature and eventually agree to give up some liberties to an impartial authority in exchange for peace and security. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Late in his life, the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes plunged into a controversy with an Oxford professor of geometry. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z In Hobbes’s view, such a government was an absolute monarchy, which could impose order and demand obedience. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Arguing that liberalism could be remade rather than thrown out altogether, he assigned his students to read political theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant in addition to their modern critics. Charles W. Mills, incisive philosopher of liberalism and race, dies at 70 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Hobbes and Rousseau were both wrong, the Davids contend, in another important way. Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z But unlike Hobbes, Locke says that we exist peacefully for the most part and can be counted on to act in our interests when necessary. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Hobbes believed he had discovered how to square the circle. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Without governments to keep order, Hobbes said, there would be “war...of every man against every man,” and life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda Hobbes in the series, wrote in a tweet, "We all loved him and adored working with him. He was endlessly funny on-screen and and in real life," she wrote. ‘Sex and the City’ star Sarah Jessica Parker says she’s 'not ready' to address Willie Garson's death 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z These models, like those of Hobbes and Rousseau, fail to do justice to the immense diversity of human behaviors, both today and in the past. Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Hobbes and Locke tackled issues of normative legitimacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The professor begged to differ, and Hobbes wound up looking foolish. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Rousseau’s view of the social contract differed greatly from that of Hobbes. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda Hobbes in the series, wrote in a tweet, "We all loved him and adored working with him. He was endlessly funny on-screen and and in real life," she wrote. Willie Garson's 'Sex and the City' co-stars pay tribute to actor after his death: 'A source of light' 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z When Watterson objected to lucrative merchandising agreements on the grounds that they would cheapen “Calvin and Hobbes,” Mr. McMeel said, the company returned the rights to him. John McMeel, newspaper syndicator who brought ‘Doonesbury’ to millions of readers, dies at 85 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z This is the state of nature, the "war of all against all" Thomas Hobbes saw as the consequence of social collapse, a world in which life becomes "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Don't be fooled by Joe Biden: None of his big proposals will become reality — and he knows it 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z In 1651, Hobbes had written a passage in his famous “Leviathan” that almost anticipated the episode. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z For Hobbes, the social contract was an agreement between a society and its government. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z David Eigenberg, who portrayed Hobbes' husband Steve Brady on "Sex and the City," wrote, "Willie… the kindest most beautiful beautiful man. There are none better. Sleep well my friend. You will always be remembered." Willie Garson's 'Sex and the City' co-stars pay tribute to actor after his death: 'A source of light' 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z “Trots and Bonnie” became a sensation, a kind of “Calvin and Hobbes” for adult audiences. For 20 years, Shary Flenniken of Seattle lampooned her hometown in hilarious comic ‘Trots and Bonnie’ 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z "It's a form of superiority," Kuipers explained, recalling how the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously argued that humor is a method of psychologically benefiting from others' shortcomings or misfortunes. Psychologists explain why being a prankster can be good for you 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z In fact, for champions of reason, the situation is far more dire than Hobbes suspected. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Regarding the Jan. 2 Style article “‘Calvin and Hobbes’: Still as fresh as new-fallen snow”: Opinion | Calvin and Hobbes helped bring a little humor to the homily 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z New: ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ said goodbye 25 years ago today. Bill Watterson and other artists reflect on 1995, the year that comics changed forever 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Decades later, the brilliance of “Calvin and Hobbes” refuses to dim. ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ said goodbye 25 years ago. Here’s why Bill Watterson’s masterwork enchants us still. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z CHOP’s sandbox revolutionaries and their city government sympathizers soon learned that Thomas Hobbes was right: In a state of nature — a situation without a sovereign authority — life is “nasty, brutish and short.” Opinion | Seattle is due for an expensive lesson 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z “Typically when you compare one building to the next, it is based on things like square footage and ZIP code,” Mr. Hobbes of JLL said. Going ‘Deep Green,’ Office Buildings Give Back to the Planet 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Over the years, I have read and reread the antics of Calvin and Hobbes religiously. Opinion | Calvin and Hobbes helped bring a little humor to the homily 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Bill Watterson offers his first public cartoon since ending ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Bill Watterson and other artists reflect on 1995, the year that comics changed forever 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Ask a fan for a favorite “Calvin and Hobbes” scenario and a stream of recurring comic premises pours forth. ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ said goodbye 25 years ago. Here’s why Bill Watterson’s masterwork enchants us still. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Bolton asserts that many key Trump advisers would tend toward describing life in the White House as philosopher Thomas Hobbes' described human existence: "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Bolton memoir discusses plot to replace Pence, 'cool' Venezuela invasion, and more 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Hobbes saw liberty as a cause of chaos and a state of nature where each did as he pleased. Anti-lockdown protesters show how the idea of "freedom" has degenerated 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z In his often erudite homilies, he would open a “Calvin and Hobbes” book to tell of their latest adventures to vividly underscore a church teaching or to convey a Christian theme or value. Opinion | Calvin and Hobbes helped bring a little humor to the homily 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Your children might be happy rereading “Calvin and Hobbes” or learning to crochet over Zoom with their grandma. How to Host Your Family’s Own Personal Summer Camp 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Just what is it about “Calvin and Hobbes” that continues to enchant so many? ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ said goodbye 25 years ago. Here’s why Bill Watterson’s masterwork enchants us still. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z He is to Aristotle, Milton and Locke, is not to Euripides, Hobbes and Madison. Is Donald Trump a tyrant? It depends — Euripides would say no, but Aristotle might say yes 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer and others saw any notion of liberty as essentially linked to a decay of social order. Anti-lockdown protesters show how the idea of "freedom" has degenerated 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z His home studio is decorated with “Calvin and Hobbes” collectibles and, yes, 3-foot-tall bunnies do greet visitors as they enter the home he shares with his wife, Sara. Sioux City artist hopes coloring book lets kids be creative 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Sharp and sweet, it handily scratches a retro “Calvin and Hobbes"/"Pete & Pete"/"Freaks and Geeks” itch while still feeling thematically modern. The 44 best TV shows to binge while self-quarantining, according to TV experts 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Calvin’s irrepressible nature is often comedically set against Hobbes, who, alive through Calvin’s eyes, holds forth as the voice of reason — leading to art that revels in both the physical and the philosophical. ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ said goodbye 25 years ago. Here’s why Bill Watterson’s masterwork enchants us still. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The royalist Thomas Hobbes scoffed, "They that are discontented under Monarchy, call it Tyranny." Is Donald Trump a tyrant? It depends — Euripides would say no, but Aristotle might say yes 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Ideas about freedom have therefore been retuned to a condition not unlike a Hobbes' state of nature where a war of all against all prevails. Anti-lockdown protesters show how the idea of "freedom" has degenerated 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z In 2017, the journalist Michael Hobbes bucked this trend in a deep dive for HuffPost into what he called an epidemic of gay loneliness. Pressure to keep up: status imbalance a major factor in stress in gay men 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z It’s what happens, as Michael Hobbes wrote for HuffPost, after years of “constantly scanning social situations for ways we may not fit into them.” Perspective | Trump is macho. Buttigieg is stoic. Who wins the contest of American manliness? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Or when he asks, “Hobbes, do you think our morality is defined by our actions, or by what’s in our hearts?” ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ said goodbye 25 years ago. Here’s why Bill Watterson’s masterwork enchants us still. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Come to that, is Thucydides such an evolutionary thinker, or doesn’t he emphasise the power of unchanging basic human motives in a way that has some affinities with, let’s say, Hobbes? Inside the mind of Dominic Cummings 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Hobbes and Shaw made $758 million worldwide in 2019 — more than Fast Five, largely considered one of the best in the series. Familiar faces return in the first trailer for Fast 9 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Feel a rush of nostalgia with original strips of Popeye and Krazy Kat, and overwhelming joy at seeing old friends Calvin and Hobbes. Coachella, Art Basel, Comic-Con: The country’s big annual events are, well, big. Check out these lesser-known alternatives. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The argument for oligarchic control is the same argument that’s been made by “conservatives” through history, from Thomas Hobbes to Sir Edmund Burke to Warren Harding and Donald Trump: Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Jefferson both warned that communal relationships would suffer as industrial societies moved from rural to urban living. Social Media Has Not Destroyed a Generation 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps the best known case involved Bill Watterson, author of “Calvin and Hobbes.” Lee Salem, godfather to such classic comic strips as 'Doonesbury,' 'Calvin and Hobbes,' dies 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z We bought a few books from there through the years, but one of our favorites was a Calvin and Hobbes collection. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Their arguments are at least as old as Rousseau and Hobbes. Opinion | 50 years ago, our modern political universe began 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z She has found two dresses to try on, one blue with white spots from Hobbes, and a yellow bird-and-flower print one from Oasis. Harrods of the High Street or fraying at the seams? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z "I'm a huge fan of the comic Calvin and Hobbes," he said. Cartoon scavenger hunts brighten Portland 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Lee Salem, who developed or edited risk-taking comic strips such as “Calvin and Hobbes,” “Doonesbury,” and “The Boondocks,” has died at age 73. Lee Salem, godfather to such classic comic strips as 'Doonesbury,' 'Calvin and Hobbes,' dies 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Nixon, who portrayed Miranda Hobbes on the hit show, made the remarks to IndieWire ahead of the debut of her film “Stray Dolls” at the Tribeca Film Festival, according to their report published Monday. Cynthia Nixon thinks if 'Sex and the City' were made now it wouldn't feature an all-white cast: 'God forbid' 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Staring into the Singularity mashed up computer code, quantum physics and Calvin and Hobbes quotes. Can we stop robots outsmarting humanity? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z I can’t believe that we are still bowing to Freud and Lorenz, not to mention Hobbes, while debating our evolutionary background. What animals can teach us about politics 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Reacting to the beheading of British 17th-century monarch, Charles I, Thomas Hobbes argued the first duty of the sovereign is to protect his subjects by being so brutal that nobody dares challenge him. Who deserves safety and who doesn’t? How capitalism teaches us a "security story" 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Yet despite multiple attempts over the centuries, including a valiant effort by Hobbes, there’s no English word for “joy in another’s sorrow.” 'Schadenfreude' reveals why we secretly enjoy the misfortune of others 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z And as Michael Hobbes reported in HuffPost, GOP legislators are also trying to dilute progressive referendum victories in states such as Florida and Utah. Opinion | Are Republicans abandoning democracy? 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The older meanings live on in Thomas Hobbes’s treatise on political philosophy, “Leviathan,” perhaps the ground zero of civility. When Is ‘Civility’ a Duty, and When Is It a Trap? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Nixon, a longtime education activist and actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as lawyer Miranda Hobbes on HBO’s “Sex and the City,” was counting on a boost from liberals looking to oust establishment politicians. Cuomo cruises past Nixon in NY gubernatorial primary 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The English political theorist Thomas Hobbes argued that the central purpose of the state was to eradicate feelings of mutual fear and suspicion that could otherwise trigger violence. How feelings took over the world 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Nixon is best known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes on the HBO show “Sex and the City,” for which she won an Emmy. New York Governor Cuomo to debate Democratic rival Cynthia Nixon 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z “We got kinda a Calvin and Hobbes thing going on,” says Miles of their rapport. Review: In ‘Blindspotting,’ simmering tensions with a beat 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Having lived through the English civil war, Hobbes feared that without a commonwealth acting as “one person,” humanity would descend into a “war of all against all,” making life “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” When Is ‘Civility’ a Duty, and When Is It a Trap? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z It is the monolithic leviathan of state that Hobbes critiqued, versus the exquisite yet fragile leviathan of the sea. The killing of a blue whale reveals how disconnected we are from nature | Philip Hoare 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The ultimate danger of this condition is the one identified by Hobbes in the 17th century. How feelings took over the world 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Hobbes attributes the escalating suicide rates to what is called “minority stress.” Is queer culture losing its radical roots? 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z I find it disgusting, but more important, it’s right where our cat, Hobbes, likes to sit. Judge John Hodgman on Dedicating a Space to Flatulence 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Christine Emba listed most of liberalism’s self-evident failures from Patrick Deneen’s book “Why Liberalism Failed,” but she assumed that “Madison and Jefferson” included all of Hobbes and Locke’s liberalism principles “into the founding documents” equally. Opinion | Without justice for all, liberalism cannot thrive 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z But her real coup was getting one into the hands of Miranda Hobbes, the red-headed lawyer played by Cynthia Nixon on Sex and the City. Perfect prams for perfect parents: the rise of the bougie buggy 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z What, asked Hobbes, was the form of politics that would provide the security that he and his contemporaries longed for, but were always denied? The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Cultural reporter Michael Hobbes writes about suicide and depression in the gay male community in a 2017 article, “The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness.” Is queer culture losing its radical roots? 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Hobbes, in his opus “Leviathan,” cited “the diversity of passions in diverse men” as well as “the difference of knowledge, or opinion each one has.” Perspective | Do we really understand the Second Amendment anymore? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z People exist in what Thomas Hobbes deemed the natural state of man. The Surprising Personality Trait Shared by Bitcoin Lovers and 'Walking Dead' Fans 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z In 1977, when power went out for only one summer day in New York, swaths of the city devolved into something like Hobbes’s man in a state of nature. This is how your world could end 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Having witnessed the English revolution at first hand, it is war above all that Hobbes most fears. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Hobbes writes that gay people are now, depending on the study, between two and 10 times more likely than straight people to take their own lives. Is queer culture losing its radical roots? 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z The rapper 50 Cent was on the syllabus alongside Thomas Hobbes. What is a black professor in America allowed to say? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Anthony Scaramucci’s stay in Donald Trump’s White House was, in the peculiarly fitting words of Thomas Hobbes, nasty, brutish and short. Twelve key departures in six months of Donald Trump's presidency 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Referring to the 17th century scholar who described life before civilization as “a war of all against all,” Sapolsky describes Demonic Males as “Hobbes all the way down.” Chimp Guy Knocks Baboon Guy's Upbeat View of Human War 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Hobbes is never less than ironical in his attitude to humanity’s appetite for “government”. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The novel will be released chapter by chapter online, echoing both the political pamphleteering of Hobbes’s era, and the serialisation of Victorian novels. I've created a monster! Shezad Dawood on his oceanic epic Leviathan 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z In those novels, and in the essays and lectures she turned to afterwards, Rand expounded – at great and repetitive length – her philosophy, soon to be taught to A-level students alongside Hobbes and Burke. The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Sky enjoys this unconventional education, saying, "I've never been to a real school. I got to see one once but I probably wouldn't like it. Calvin and Hobbes gave me all the big words." One family's life in the wilderness - BBC News 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z It was part of my job to teach Plato-to-Nato courses in the history of ideas, and Machiavelli came up early in the year, squeezed between Augustine and Hobbes. Have we got Machiavelli all wrong? 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z “Hobbism” became a term of opprobrium, Leviathan was publicly burnt as a seditious document, and Hobbes himself spent many of his later years in fear for his life. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z At a young age, he became enamored of conservative thinkers such as author William F. Buckley Jr., and drops names of philosophers like Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau in his speeches. Combative new Florida House speaker vows contentious session 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Some of my favorite “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoons were those where the companions tobogganed through the woods. Cowabunga! Backcountry sledding for the big kids 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The books that influenced me as an undergraduate were from the canon of modern political thought, ranging from Hobbes and Machiavelli to Foucault. Ben Lerner: ‘Being a poet is like saying: I have an important job, and I’m a total sponger’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The scheme was so byzantine and cockamamie that many suspect Plato couldn’t have been serious; Hobbes, for one, called the idea “useless.” The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Hobbes also illuminates his argument with many delicious asides: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z One applicant I worked with planned to submit a "Calvin & Hobbes" comic in response to Georgetown Law's fill-the-box prompt. How to Tackle Supplemental Law School Essay Prompts 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z For much of human history, life was well described by Thomas Hobbes as “nasty, brutish and short”. Our life in three stages – school, work, retirement – will not survive much longer | Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z He analyzed Bill Watterson’s motivations for his classic comic Calvin and Hobbes by examining his art and stories. This filmmaker deep-dives into what makes your favorite cartoons tick 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Each panel is like a window into a fully imagined world, and seeing Calvin and Hobbes existing in this kind of depth is pretty surreal. Calvin and Hobbes in 3D is even more magical 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Combined with the economy, candour and irony of Leviathan as a whole, it marks Hobbes out as one of the truly great writers in the English literary canon. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Hobbes and other philosophers argued that society is a machine driven by selfishness. The building blocks of learning 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z The zoo said in a statement Sunday that the 22-year-old leopard named Hobbes was euthanized after his health declined rapidly over the past week. Maryland Zoo says Hobbes, its African leopard, has died 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The philosopher Thomas Hobbes had a word for this method: “exorbitancy.” “The Lobster” Snaps at Love 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Without a strong and iron-fisted ruler, Hobbes wrote, there would be “no place for industry…no arts, no letters, no society.” “When there is no middle class, there cannot be real democracy” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Hobbes himself was born an Elizabethan, and liked to say that his premature birth in 1588 was caused by his mother’s anxiety at the threat of the Spanish Armada: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Twenty-one years ago in the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes,” the brat-savant hero complains, “Six minutes to microwave this! Who’s got that kind of time?!” Live, on Your Mobile Device, It’s Facebook 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Both Hobbes and Amari were orphaned as cubs when their parents were poached. Maryland Zoo says Hobbes, its African leopard, has died 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z It was Thomas Hobbes, in 1655, who first proposed a social contract. The new social contract: This is what’s roiling the electorate & fueling the success of anti-establishment candidates Trump, Cruz and Sanders 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z The Founders believed in the power of a middle class; and in defiance of Hobbes and the conventional wisdom of Europe, they believed democracy and a middle class were the “natural state of man.” “When there is no middle class, there cannot be real democracy” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z This, in essence, adds up to Hobbes’s social contract, enforced by an external power. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Luttwak is less a grand political theorist in the tradition of Machiavelli or Hobbes than a skilled bricoleur of historical strategic insights. The Machiavelli of Maryland: adviser to presidents, prime ministers – and the Dalai Lama | Thomas Meaney 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Because he differs from this, many Labour types consider the chancellor a follower of Thomas Hobbes, with his brutal, dog-eat-dog vision of human nature. George Osborne, liberal idealist 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Hobbes’ genius was to remove religion from governance: no more “divine right of kings.” The new social contract: This is what’s roiling the electorate & fueling the success of anti-establishment candidates Trump, Cruz and Sanders 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes wrote in his 1651 magnum opus Leviathan that the world was better off with the rule of the few over the many, even if that meant that the many were impoverished. “When there is no middle class, there cannot be real democracy” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z As a child, I learned the most from: “Calvin and Hobbes.” Randall Munroe, Creator of ‘xkcd,’ on Google Search Tricks and Cat-Like-Creature Videos 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Calvin and Hobbes have been friends for 30 years. Calvin and Hobbes First Met 30 Years Ago 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It was the start of a 10-year run for “Calvin and Hobbes,” a peek into childhood that a Wall Street Journal essay this year called America’s strangest, funniest and most profound comic strip. Your Wednesday Briefing 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Hobbes had lived through the English Civil War—what he called a “war of all against all.” The new social contract: This is what’s roiling the electorate & fueling the success of anti-establishment candidates Trump, Cruz and Sanders 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z For the working class to have both freedom and security, Hobbes suggested, was impossible. “When there is no middle class, there cannot be real democracy” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z For Hobbes, limited government exists not to provide for the individual good but to maintain social order. No man is an island 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z It’s been exactly 30 years since the two title characters of Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes met in the first strip of the comic published on Nov. 18, 1985. Calvin and Hobbes First Met 30 Years Ago 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z At its peak, “Calvin and Hobbes” ran in 2,400 newspapers. Your Wednesday Briefing 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Americans, he wrote, inhabited the world of Thomas Hobbes, in which “true security and the defense and promotion of a liberal order still depend on the possession and use of military might.” Farewell to the Era of No Fences 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Because Hobbes believed that ordinary people couldn’t govern themselves, he believed that most people would be happy to exchange personal freedom and economic opportunity for the ability to live in safety and security. “When there is no middle class, there cannot be real democracy” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z While Morgan referred to “witchcraft” in his conference, Andrew Hobbes, a spokesperson for his department, referred to Wicca specifically in a statement to NBC News. Wicca experts slam Florida sheriff for linking triple murder to 'witchcraft' 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z In the final panel, Hobbes, held upside-down by a rope, eats the sandwich and says, “We’re kind of stupid that way.” Calvin and Hobbes First Met 30 Years Ago 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The following summer I read Politics and Society, with more Plato and Aristotle paving the way for Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and other giants of political discourse. STEM Study Starts With Liberal Arts 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes I’d like to be saying I wrote Calvin and Hobbes,” he laughs. Benjamin Dix: ‘I’m the custodian of some of the darkest stories in the world’ 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Yet in the 17th Century English political writers such as Thomas Hobbes were happily using it as we do today. The Election Vocabularist: Did the word parliament come from parabola? - BBC News 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Last fall, human rights consultant Michael Hobbes wrote a widely shared New Republic piece on large ”new philanthropy” wagers and the contrast with the slow pace of human development. Do New Philanthropists Get It? Taking The Long View On Social Change 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z He refused to license it for merchandise because he thought the comic could not be condensed “without great violation to the strip’s spirit,” as he wrote in The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book. Calvin and Hobbes First Met 30 Years Ago 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z For most of human history, to quote the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Measles Outbreak Shows Vaccines Getting Taken for Granted 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Hobbes describes why improving other people’s lives is so difficult: because behaviors that seem maladjusted to us often have their own logic behind them. The 5 best magazine essays of the year 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Faster than I thought even just three days ago, distinctions are disappearing between wars and economics, the real and the virtual, and a world of states and Thomas Hobbes' state of nature. The Sony Hack Shows How Vulnerable We Are to Intangible Threats 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The only piece in show that isn’t referenced from a film is a laser etching of the Frontispiece cover to Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. Artist Adam Helms On His Inaugural Boesky East Exhibition 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Instead of embracing Powell’s view, the nation would be better served thinking of war as 17th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes viewed human life without government: “nasty, brutish and short.” The U.S. Should Not Wage War Against ISIS Like Afghanistan and Iraq 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z We led lives that were, in Hobbes’ phrase, “nasty, brutish and short”. Don’t fear growth –it’s no longer the enemy of the planet 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Michael Hobbes’ piece, “Stop Trying to Save the World,” is a good example of the old magazine’s ability to look at reality with a warm heart but a clear head. The 5 best magazine essays of the year 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z A long tradition in political philosophy and economics, dating back about four centuries to Thomas Hobbes, suggests that the amount that a person consumes is the right basis for taxation. One Way to Fix the Corporate Tax: Repeal It 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z That is how powerful America is: it not only doesn’t need canon law, Ockham, Locke or Hobbes, it may actually have invented them. Paul Ryan's American Idea is Mad Libs with a thesaurus full of conservative lies 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z This is a Thomas Hobbes moment, and it has been for quite a while. Taking a News-Out 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z On Dec. 31, 1995, Calvin and Hobbes rode off on a sled. How Bill Watterson made his secret return to comics 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z They picked out a name, Kalvin James, and when Deirdre adopted an orange tabby they named it Hobbes, evoking the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes.” Nadya Labi: How a Militia Grew on a Military Base 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes wrote eloquently about life in the absence of political authority, but he couldn’t foresee the modern fracturing of facts and narratives that accompanies its collapse. Op-Ed Contributor: The War on Truth in Ukraine 2014-04-28T00:12:02Z But Locke also less directly attacked the authoritarian argument of Hobbes’ ”Leviathan,” primarily by envisioning a very different, much less paranoid version of the state of nature. Cliven Bundy’s next sick libertarian paradise: Georgia wants you to die from gun violence 2014-04-24T12:30:00Z Other 17th-century rationalists, including Hobbes and Leibniz, offered their own versions of the mathematical universe. Books: ‘Our Mathematical Universe’: A Case for Alternate Realities 2014-04-21T21:25:54Z There one of the key figures is Thomas Hobbes, the 17th-century philosopher of authoritarianism, a strong advocate of law, order — and, like the Jesuits, of the top-down hierarchical nature of Euclidean geometry. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z Hobbes and Spinoza—however wary they may have been about speaking too “boldly”—helped. How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World [Excerpt] 2014-03-14T13:50:00Z The 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes proposed that humor often arose from a sudden sense of superiority, and Dr. Smith writes that our culture thrives on downward comparisons that provide this “sudden glory.” Books: ‘The Joy of Pain,’ and What We Get Out of It 2013-12-23T20:24:43Z Hobbes famously thought the state of nature was a “war of each against all,” whereas Locke saw it as a state governed by moral principles, but not law. Cliven Bundy’s next sick libertarian paradise: Georgia wants you to die from gun violence 2014-04-24T12:30:00Z As, I happily admit, do I. In our family, when the going gets tough, the tough turn to Calvin and Hobbes. Bert, Ernie and gay marriage 2013-07-19T16:18:20Z A trace of the dynamic that animated fierce struggles between Jesuit mathematicians and the infinitesimalists, as well as between Hobbes and Wallis, can be found today. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z Hobbes later said humour arose from sudden glory over others. Humor is a science 2013-06-08T14:00:00Z Hobbes and Locke on the 6:13 The older I get, the more I am moved by civility. My Generation: Hobbes and Locke on the 6:13 2013-05-20T17:34:43Z In the 17th century, philosophes like Robert Boyles and Thomas Hobbes began making lists of curious things. Curiosity Didn't Kill The Cat, It Created The Mousetrap 2013-05-06T12:52:47Z Hobbes planted it in his “social contract” thought experiment on ending mankind’s “war of all against all” in a “state of nature.” It Is in Our Nature to Be Self-Deficient 2013-04-19T20:45:03.420Z An early hire as managing editor was Jim Andrews, who left to co-found the newspaper syndication group that gave the world “Doonesbury,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” “The Far Side,” and other classic comic strips and columns. John Allen Jr.: The Man Who Picked the Pope 2013-03-14T14:35:36Z The forever-hungry polar bear is real enough to Timmy, which — as with the tiger in “Calvin and Hobbes” — is what really matters. ‘Pearls Before Swine’ creator takes on Timmy Failure in new series of kids’ books 2013-02-25T21:25:48Z Thomas Hobbes, the 17th-century political philosopher, believed we are essentially worthless, and are valuable only to the extent that others think we are. Because I'm worth it: the relationship economist 2013-02-09T09:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes, in his 17th-century book “Leviathan,” held that aggressive self-serving acts were “natural” unless forbidden by law. James M. Buchanan, Economic Scholar, Dies at 93 2013-01-09T17:01:34Z These results suggest that our first impulse is to cooperate—that Augustine and Hobbes were wrong, and that we are fundamentally “good” creatures after all. Scientists Probe Human Nature--and Discover We are Good, After All 2012-11-20T12:45:05.523Z Rand assumed, as Hobbes did, that without a centralized authority human life would erupt into a chaos of violence. Ayn Rand on Human Nature 2012-10-05T13:15:08.527Z Or perhaps, we’d do better to begin with Thomas Hobbes and his view of materialism: that everything is matter and energy and all of our behaviors, a product of the brain and physical processes. The birth of experimental psychology: How do we measure beginnings? 2012-07-31T14:45:00.217Z The Calvin & Hobbes documentary and soccer magazine fall under my entertainment budget. Should Facebook Acquire Kickstarter? 2012-07-23T16:52:34Z Chaos and carnage hover over the novels of Cormac McCarthy and the writings of thinker Thomas Hobbes. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z Abuses of that authority were, Hobbes thought, the inescapable price of living in security. Airport scanning technology is a transparent victory for terrorism 2012-07-14T23:03:15Z Then I reminded them of the Calvin and Hobbes raccoon story, and the panel that shows Calvin hiding under the bed: “It’s either mean or it’s arbitrary, and either way I’ve got the heebie-jeebies.” A teacher’s perfect moment in the classroom (involving John Milton and John Mayer) 2012-07-01T14:30:00Z Hobbes’s logic sounds quite modern—and it did inspire the conception of empiricism, the notion that all knowledge comes through the senses – surely a scientific-sounding contention for our internal life. The birth of experimental psychology: How do we measure beginnings? 2012-07-31T14:45:00.217Z Europe now resembles Thomas Hobbes’ description of man’s life in its natural state: “poor, nasty, brutish and short.” The Future of the Euro: Why Sentiment Alone Can?t Save the Union 2012-04-30T09:45:55Z A canonical statement of this view was presented by a thinker commonly regarded as having a grimly realistic view of human beings, the 17th Century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z Hobbes gave the first great impulse to moral philosophy in England, and his opponents were naturally impelled to an unselfish theory. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z “So was Calvin and Hobbes copying Frost?” one student asked. A teacher’s perfect moment in the classroom (involving John Milton and John Mayer) 2012-07-01T14:30:00Z Some of Hobbes’ pieces were only in Latin, others were issued in English. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Hobbes had systematized Bacon, without, however, furnishing a proof for Bacon's fundamental principle, the origin of all human knowledge from the world of sensation. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z This is what Hobbes called a "war of all against all". A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z The theory of Adam Smith, though closely connected with, differs totally in consequences from that of Hobbes on this point. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Hobbes spoke of the first years of his tutorship as the happiest of his life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Strange to say, Hobbes was protected from his clerical antagonists by the favor of Charles II, who had the portrait of the philosopher of Malmesbury hung on the walls of his private room at Whitehall. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Hobbes, as Bacon's continuator, argues thus: if all human knowledge is furnished by the senses, then our concepts and ideas are but the phantoms, divested of their sensual forms, of the real world. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z These lines from Leviathan - Hobbes' best-known work and a masterpiece of English prose - have been read as meaning that humans are by nature violent animals. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z —You have inserted my inquiry respecting the frontispiece to Hobbes's Leviathan; I should also be glad to know the interpretation put by any of your readers on the various other symbols in that plate. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-15T02:00:34.113Z Bramhall, a strong Arminian, had afterwards written down his views and sent them to Newcastle to be answered in this form by Hobbes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Better follow such writers as Bacon, Bunyan, Hobbes, Swift in preference. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But Hobbes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, were most attentively heard in the passages where they favoured or combatted the dominant social and theological prepossessions. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Moved by a combination of reason and fear, Hobbes believed, human beings will contract with each other to create a sovereign - an absolute ruler who will prevent any slide into anarchy. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z Hobbes and Locke were wrong in saying that the mind must find in the relation the idea of Power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Hobbes duly replied, but not for publication, because he thought the subject a delicate one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Some say Hobbes's last words were: "I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z But, notwithstanding all these drawbacks, the State in its Idea is entitled to the name Hobbes gave it,—the Mortal God. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Under the shelter of strong government, humankind can enjoy "commodious living" - Hobbes' term for a civilised mode of life in which we can live and work together without fear. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z How Hobbes himself, or any other person, should come to print the Leviathan in this manner, it seems difficult to explain. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-20T03:00:18.340Z On the other hand, Bramhall, supposing Hobbes privy to the publication, resented the manner of it, especially as no mention was made of his rejoinder. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Locke compared the soul to a sheet of white paper, just as Hobbes had compared it to a slate on which time and chance might scrawl their experience. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z So also Hobbes describes the prerogatives of the sovereign Leviathan. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Interpreted as a metaphor rather than a literal account of events, there is a good deal of truth in Hobbes' story. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z In England the new philosophy had broken with time-honoured beliefs more completely than it had done even in France; Hobbes was more startling than Bacon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Irritating as it was, it did not avail to shake Hobbes’s determination to remain silent; and thus at last there was peace for a time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Even the philosopher of Malmesbury, the sagacious author of ‘The Leviathan,’ Thomas Hobbes, was infected by the prevalent delusion. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z It is evident from these propositions that Hegel takes that view of political supremacy which has been associated with the name of Hobbes. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Blood Meridian has been interpreted as presenting a Hobbesian view of human nature, but what it shows is something that Hobbes did not envision - violence as a way of life. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z No two thinkers could well be more opposed than Shaftesbury and Hobbes; yet sometimes ideas from both were combined by the same writer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Before the strife flamed up again, Hobbes had published, in 1658, the outstanding section of his philosophical system, and thus completed, after a fashion, the scheme he had planned more than twenty years before. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Atomic atheism is by far the more important, if only because Hobbes, the great antagonist whom Cudworth always has in view, is supposed to have held it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z But the Hegelian God immanent in the state is a higher power than Hobbes knows: he is no mortal, but in his truth an immortal God. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Hobbes believed that humans are driven to attack and prey on one another mainly by fear of uncertainty. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z And why aren’t we living in what Thomas Hobbes memorably referred to as a state of constant “war of all against all”? Why Doesn't Society Just Fall Apart? 2012-01-23T16:16:37Z The artifice was successful, and no sooner had Wallis publicly refuted the solution than Hobbes claimed the credit of it, and went more wonderfully than ever astray in its defence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The views of Hobbes seem 621 to Cumberland utterly subversive of religion, morality and civil society, and he endeavours, as a rule, to establish directly antagonistic propositions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z He allowed the royalists Hobbes and Cowley to return to England, and lived in friendship with the poet Waller. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z For Hobbes, human beings are solitary creatures, who want nothing more than simply to go on living. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z Young's work on, 234.Hobbes, opposition of, to Boyle, 25.Hollow conductor, Franklin's experiments on, 91;Cavendish's experiments on, 135;Faraday's experiments on, 270.Honorary degrees conferred on Franklin, 66, 101.Hooke's law, 229.Hooke, Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z Two or three days after Charles’s arrival in London, Hobbes drew in the street the notice of his former pupil, and was at once received into favour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Hobbes must have refused to accept the definition proposed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z A somewhat similar quarrel arose over Hobbes's "Leviathan" three centuries later. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Again, for Hobbes the only reason for killing is to pre-empt being killed yourself. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z The treatise on "The Spring of the Air" met with much opposition, and Boyle considered it necessary to defend his doctrine against the objections of Franciscus Linus and Hobbes. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z At all events Hobbes was satisfied with the rule of a king who had appreciated the author of Leviathan, and protected him when, after a time, protection in a very real sense became necessary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z And many besides Hobbes must have felt dissatisfied with the definition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Now, the principle meant is true, so that, although the other proposition mentioned by Hobbes does not follow logically from the first, there is some evidence that this other is true. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z In a passage in Leviathan that undermines much of the rest of the book, Hobbes writes of "the privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only". A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z Names like Shakespeare, Grotius, Bacon, Hobbes appear in half a dozen different places. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Hobbes, then verging upon eighty, was terrified at the prospect of being treated as a heretic, and proceeded to burn such of his papers as he thought might compromise him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z He, therefore, held that the ground taken up by the Cambridge Platonists could not be maintained against Hobbes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Above all, the Queen knew that her eldest son, whose private opinions varied between the tenets of Hobbes and those of the Church of Rome, would have liked to be tolerant. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z Where he went wrong was in thinking that violence can be tamed principally by the use of reason, an illusion of the European Enlightenment, of which Hobbes was one of the first great exponents. A Point of View: A time when violence is normal 2012-07-13T17:02:20Z Nasty, brutish, and short, as her third husband had said, quoting Hobbes on the subject of natural man. Margaret Atwood: “Stone Mattress.” 2011-12-12T05:00:00Z The sight of these exiles made the political interest once more predominant in Hobbes, and before long the revived feeling issued in the formation of a new and important design. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Cumberland’s Benevolence is, deliberately, the precise antithesis to the Egoism of Hobbes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z White knew Hobbes, but his political theory is rather an anticipation of that of Locke and the eighteenth-century Whigs. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z This conception, which is present already in Hobbes, but especially in Herbart's "method of relations," deserves preference always where the purpose in view is not the shortest possible argumentation but the most exact analysis. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z He used facts as Hobbes says the wise man uses words: they were his counters only, not his money. Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z The only consequence that came of the parliamentary scare was that Hobbes could never afterwards get permission to print anything on subjects relating to human conduct. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z If, then, Hobbes went to the one extreme of postulating selfishness as the sole motive of human action, Cumberland was equally extravagant as regards Benevolence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Thomas Hobbes was still living among his learned friends in the French capital. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z We are introduced to Hobbes and to More—Hobbes much better drawn than More—but we never meet Chillingworth, and though at one time very near to Hammond we do not hear him. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Hobbes, Mr. remarks on his definition of wealth, 13. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z For some time Hobbes was not even allowed to utter a word of protest, whatever might be the occasion that his enemies took to triumph over him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z It is an answer to Hobbes’s famous doctrine that moral distinctions are created by the state, an answer from the standpoint of Platonism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Classmates said he was popular, dressed stylishly, drove a bright red MG sports car and loved discussions of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Louis XIV and Shakespeare. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Leader of Breakaway Republic of Biafra, Dies at 78 2011-11-26T23:09:51Z Hobbes thinks it is the consecrating power by which a priest, in the hour of death, can save a soul.—He should have said, the power of absolution. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Or in the words of Hobbes: “Forasmuch as God Almighty is incomprehensible, it follows that we can have no conception or image of the Deity, except only this, that there is a God.” Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z And, amid all his troubles, Hobbes was not without his consolations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Words are the money of fools, as Hobbes said, but only the counters of wise men. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z This was almost a century before the version by Hobbes of Malmesbury. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z According to Hobbes the primitive condition of mankind is that of a war of every man against all other men, and only the creation of society makes an end of it. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z With Hobbes, it is a state of war, and government is the result of an agreement among men to keep the peace. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z As already suggested, it cannot be allowed that Hobbes falls into any regular succession from Bacon; neither can it be said that he handed on the torch to Locke. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The works of Hobbes had caused a great stir on the Continent. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Such conclusions as that of Hobbes, that war is the natural condition of Society, are those which would follow from a consideration of man, as he appears to the Sense. b. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z The practical politicians who praise war repeat with Hobbes: "Homo homini lupus," "Man is a wolf to man." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Like the expiring Hobbes, more than two thousand years later, the grand old Athenian felt himself "taking a leap in the dark." Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z But even more than in external nature, Hobbes was interested in the phenomena of social life, presenting themselves so impressively in an age of political revolution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z A faint echo is perceptible of Hobbes's teaching. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Spencer, Mill, and Locke have so fully imbibed all that was good in Hobbes that it is scarcely necessary to read him. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Hobbes is also forced by his definition of the law of a country to explain what he means by natural Law, and he does not evade this duty. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z English philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously argued in his 1651 book, Leviathan, that such acts of violence would be commonplace without a strong state to enforce the rule of law. The Decline of Violence 2011-10-07T12:45:03.737Z Apart from this, Hobbes owed little to his university training, which was based on the scholastic logic then prevalent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Thomas Hobbes, a.d. 1588-1679, an acute philosophical and political writer, looked on Christianity as an oriental phantom, and of value only as a support of absolute monarchy and an antidote to revolution. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z He is one of our greatest philosophers; but the general reader will find the substance of Hobbes's whole philosophy better put in Locke, Mill, and Herbert Spencer. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z To the Will of Society Hobbes cannot possibly ascribe the same incontestable sanctity. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Hobbes was only partially right in advocating top-down state controls to keep the worse demons of our nature in check. The Decline of Violence 2011-10-07T12:45:03.737Z Among Hobbes’s papers preserved at Hardwick, where he died, there remains the boy’s dictation-book, interspersed with headings, examples, &c. in Hobbes’s hand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z On this point the secular philosophers Hume and Hobbes are more convincing than Bentham, Dewey and Kurtz. Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes 2011-08-23T11:01:00Z And then, when I am gaining information on Hobbes, the Hittites, right in front, take my eye. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Not the state, as Hobbes envisioned it, but the market itself. The market is now more powerful than the state 2011-08-10T15:59:00Z Property, we have seen, is necessary; but if every one is free to appropriate to himself what he needs, it becomes anarchy; it is, as Hobbes said, “the war of all against all.” Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Among Hobbes’s friends at this time are specially mentioned John Selden and William Harvey, who left him a legacy of �10. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z We cannot accept Descartes, or Spinoza, or Leibnitz, or Bacon, or Hobbes, or Locke, as giving satisfactory or even coherent systems, or as having done more than lead to the thorough scepticism of Hume. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z This ordinary speech deserves the description which Hobbes gave to his “State of Nature,” that “it is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z In the view of Hobbes, the difficulty of the genesis of conscious minds is solved by saying that sensation and thought are part of the reaction of the organism on external movement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Hobbes, the English philosopher, was so perturbed by darkness that he kept a light in his bedroom all night. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Though Behemoth was kept back at the king’s express desire, it saw the light, without Hobbes’s leave, in 1679, before his death. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z In particular he struck out all the passages which Wood had inserted in praise of Hobbes, and substituted some disparaging epithets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z This looks like a terrifying enactment of Hobbes' Leviathan: no violence in the streets, the State holds a monopoly on it. Syria: Inside Bashar Assad's Dungeons 2011-06-03T20:40:00Z The hand of Lord Bacon had already moulded the language at pleasure, and he might have preceded his friend Hobbes in the lucidity of a philosophical style. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Neither Hobbes nor Rousseau, however, was likely to be timorous about ghostly visitants. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Hobbes came home, in 1637, to a country seething with discontent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Some of Hobbes' pieces were only in Latin, others were issued in English. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z It is to these Italian discussions of the ludicrous that the theory of laughter formulated by Hobbes, and after him by Addison, owes its origin. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The logical deliriums of Harrington, it is not impossible, might have thrown a beam of light on “The Human Nature” of Hobbes, and “The Understanding” of Locke. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Hobbes is not the only one who took the question of the origin of societies as the starting-point of political science. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z By these events Hobbes was distracted from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z According," says Hobbes, "to the two principal parts of man, I divide his faculties into two sorts—faculties of the body, and faculties of the mind. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z The custom of calling the English by birth 'English Hobbes,' or clowns, was forbidden, as well as the nickname of 'Irish dogs' bestowed upon the English by blood. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Then make a good meal, Master Revyngton," said Hobbes, setting a loaf of brown bread, some cheese, and a jack of ale, "for if not thou'lt feel the want of it ere long. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Had not Bodin, Hobbes and Bossuet taught that the force which gives birth to kingdoms serves best also to feed and sustain them? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Meanwhile Hobbes had his thoughts too full of the political theory which the events of the last years had ripened within him to settle, even in Paris, to the orderly composition of his works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Strange to say Hobbes was protected from his clerical antagonists by the favour of Charles II., who had the portrait of the philosopher of Malmesbury hung on the walls of his private room at Whitehall. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z He wrote an "Intellectual System" that was supposed to give Hobbes a death-blow. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Master Hobbes, of the city of Winton, is a fletcher, and his arrows are well known as the very best in the country. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Hobbes was one of the chief supporters of the theory of Divine Right, whilst Milton was a strong opponent. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z We know the Leviathan only as it finally emerged from Hobbes’s pen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Indeed, this is the very thing by which Mr. Hobbes has chosen to illustrate and explain it. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Thus Hobbes attempted to banish all mysterious or obscure forces from morality, which was the characteristic and inevitable product of human nature and human circumstances. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z "Up the river to Botley, my son there to see Master Nicholas Hobbes." The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z If children were mere individuals they would merely quarrel, as Hobbes says; but being social beings also, they tend to unite forces and aid one another to compass desired ends. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z In 1647 Hobbes was overtaken by a serious illness which disabled him for six months. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Mr. Hobbes encountered no more difficulty in reconciling this notion of liberty with the scheme of fatality for which he contended, than President Edwards found in reconciling it with the same scheme in disguise. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z This way of looking at things seemed strange to all, and even revolting to some, of Hobbes' contemporaries. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Oddly enough, Professor Huvelius wrote the most cynical book in the world—Hobbes preaches rosy sentimentalism in comparison—with the very highest motives. The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z With Hobbes and Hume he admits the power of self-interest or utility, and makes it enter into morals as the law of self-preservation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z One of Wallis’s rough sallies in this kind suggested to Hobbes the title of the next rejoinder with which, in 1657, he sought to close the unseemly wrangle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Mr. Hobbes has an argument to prove necessity, precisely like that of Edwards, except that its nakedness is not covered up with the foreknowledge of God. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Mechanical categories, as we have seen, had been steadily extending themselves for the better part of two centuries, and with the materialism of Hobbes the process seemed fairly complete. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Uniting the "wit of Voltaire with the simplicity of Rousseau," Franklin achieved a style "only surpassed by the unimprovable Hobbes of Malmesbury, the paragon of perspicuity." Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Such society as that of the early Patriarchs of Judea, under Moses and Joshua, and as that of the South, would never beget a sceptic, a Hobbes, a Wayland, nor a Channing. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z After a time Hobbes took heart again and began a third period of controversial activity, which did not end, on his side, till his ninetieth year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Here we have precisely the same confusion of an axiomatical with a causal necessity, that occurs in the argument of Mr. Hobbes. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z The principles which Descartes and Hobbes had laid down were criticised by being carried out to their logical conclusions. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Indeed, men’s telling their own blunders, even blunders recently committed, and laughing at them, a thing not uncommon in very risible dispositions, is utterly inexplicable upon Hobbes’s system. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z Hobbes saw men devouring one another, under their system, two hundred years ago, and we all see them similarly engaged now. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z In the course of the next seven years in Derbyshire and abroad, Hobbes took his pupil over rhetoric,3 logic, astronomy, and the principles of law, with other subjects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z With what clearness! with what force! would President Edwards have dashed this poor flimsy sophism into a thousand atoms, if he had come across it in the atheism of Hobbes! An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Leibniz.—Spinoza had taken over from Descartes and Hobbes their mechanical and determinist conception of nature, though he gave to it, as we have seen, an interpretation of his own. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z It is curious to see a great man, like Hobbes, thus attacked by less ones, who do not even understand him. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z Hobbes did see it, and supposing there was no other world, said "a state of nature was a state of war." Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Though Hobbes claims to have performed his work “with much more diligence than elegance,” his version is remarkable as a piece of English writing, but is by no means accurate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Hence Hobbes’s ideal constitution naturally comes to be an unquestioned and unlimited—though not necessarily monarchical—despotism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Atmospheric Conditions.—As we have seen, a mechanical view of the universe was not felt by thinkers like Descartes or Newton, or even Hobbes, to involve any consequences that were necessarily hostile to religion. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z The vindication of the doctrine of Hobbes, as to the cause of laughter; and exposition of the errors of Campbell and Beattie on this subject.—Sect. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z But Latin was still often the supplanter: the treatise of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De Veritate, of note in the early history of Deism, and much of the writing of the ambidextrous Hobbes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Constitutional relations only existed between England and the Pale; relations with Ireland outside the Pale were in that state of nature, in which, says Hobbes, the life of man is “nasty, short, brutish, and mean.” The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z From an ethical point of view Hobbism divides itself naturally into two parts, which by Hobbes’s peculiar political doctrines are combined into a coherent whole, but are not otherwise necessarily connected. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Galileo, Descartes, and Hobbes, besides others, had been aware of this fact, which indeed becomes evident to the most superficial analysis of sense-experience. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Whatever it is we understand by Nature, we can have no such Idea of it, as to imagine Mr. Hobbes cou'd have been too hard for it. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z But his works, though their often mellow and dignified style has been ignorantly underrated, also show the change in philosophic writing since Hobbes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Like Hobbes, those who today decry the irrationality of the tax code and advocate fundamental reform are ignored by elected officials. Slow-Growth U.S. Now Ripe for Consumption Tax: Kevin Hassett 2011-01-24T02:41:43Z Hobbes’s moral man, who, if let loose from governmental constraint, would straightway spread ruin among his fellows, is not what we commonly agree to call good. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z With Hobbes, then, a naturalistic view of the universe may be said to have been tolerably complete: it embraces physics, psychology, and ethics. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. Please, stop the Zuckerberg love train 2010-12-23T18:00:01Z Cavalier exiles like Waller, Cowley and Hobbes had come back from the winter of their discontent in Paris, and Saint-Evremond, the typical bel esprit and critic, settled long in England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It’s been 360 years since Hobbes first called for the elimination of income taxation and wholesale adoption of a consumption tax. Slow-Growth U.S. Now Ripe for Consumption Tax: Kevin Hassett 2011-01-24T02:41:43Z Hobbes downward, have been of essentially native growth, showing hardly any traces of foreign influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z If the Tories had any definite theory of this nature, it was more that of Hobbes, who suggested that the State was imposed upon Society for the purpose of maintaining order among mutually hostile individuals. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Except in strangely making Zephaniah contemporary with Isaiah, Hobbes’ conclusions, in so far as they differ from the traditional views, have been confirmed by the more thorough criticism of subsequent scholars. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z A vague doctrine, inherited from Coke, taught that statutes might be so unreasonable as to be null, and any political theory that seemed to derive from Hobbes would have been regarded with not unjust suspicion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Asians like Calvin and Hobbes: Because the Tiger is a prominent Asian symbol? The Web Hostess: Google Instant, Craigslist adult ads and more 2010-09-08T18:00:00Z On the other hand Hobbes yields to no one in maintaining the paramount importance of moral regulations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z I doubt that Locke, Hobbes, Milton and Mill would have foreseen where their campaigns for freedom of the press would lead. Tabloids splash yet again on the sordid Wayne Rooney story 2010-09-07T10:39:00Z The suggestion that the last chapter only, not the whole Pentateuch, was written later, is met by Hobbes by reference to Gen. xii. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z There, I found a compendium of “Calvin and Hobbes” and “Garfield,” two of their favorites. App Smart: Using Apps to Keep the Peace on a Family Car Trip 2010-07-22T00:40:00Z |
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