How Thomas Hobbes Proposed Tyranny and Delivered Liberalism
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Despite being hailed as one of the the most influential thinkers of modern political thought, Thomas Hobbes never left behind a school of thought bearing his name. While scores of theorists and would-be theorists go by Platonists, Aristotelians, Thomists, Kantians, Nietzscheans, Marxists, and even Heideggerians, “Hobbesian” is mostly associated with the the succession of five attributes Hobbes believes are inherent in pre-government human existence: “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Setting aside the fact that life can be all those things
How Thomas Hobbes Proposed Tyranny and Delivered Liberalism
How Thomas Hobbes Proposed Tyranny and…
How Thomas Hobbes Proposed Tyranny and Delivered Liberalism
Despite being hailed as one of the the most influential thinkers of modern political thought, Thomas Hobbes never left behind a school of thought bearing his name. While scores of theorists and would-be theorists go by Platonists, Aristotelians, Thomists, Kantians, Nietzscheans, Marxists, and even Heideggerians, “Hobbesian” is mostly associated with the the succession of five attributes Hobbes believes are inherent in pre-government human existence: “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Setting aside the fact that life can be all those things