Perhaps 2009 will prove to be the final round in the fight for liberty’s life. Liberty, as defined in the Hobbesian colonists’ sense of the word, has long been subject to any number of restrictions. Americans may not enter into any business they like, or with any person, or at any price, or in any […]
The word argument carries a connotation of contentiousness. A proper argument is a quest for truth, though we may occasionally lose sight of this fact and begin to think the purpose of argument is to assert dominance – to win […]
Racism
Function: noun
Date: 1933 1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race […]
In Leviathan, Hobbes entertained a thought experiment in which he reduced man to his fundamental essence, so as to reason, free of doctrinal prejudice, from first principles to a coherent theory on how man ought to be governed. Starting with the now-famous presumption that life for this primitive man was “nasty, brutish, and short,” […]
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