tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post4136795587156113106..comments2023-10-24T03:46:41.971-07:00Comments on Contingencies: Hobbes' ghostJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-57792897437152819932010-06-03T13:35:57.604-07:002010-06-03T13:35:57.604-07:00Yes I agree, and unfortunately many consider Hobbe...Yes I agree, and unfortunately many consider Hobbes a primitive or rogue when he had a rather sophisticated political mind (recalling a few of Scruton's typically Toryish remarks on TH)--and even if one does not agree to all of Hobbes' conclusions in the Leviathan, it's sort of a basic document...or something like that. It's unfortunate most humans, certainly 'Mericans, donJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-23081518200092403552010-06-03T10:58:09.955-07:002010-06-03T10:58:09.955-07:00I like Ghosts, er, I mean, Hobbes. I learned all a...I <i>like</i> Ghosts, er, I mean, Hobbes. I learned all about him, if you believe this, from Ian M. Hacking: Why does language matter to philosophy! Later on I went to his Computatio, first in English -- and then in Latin. -- and only <i>then</i> to where I should have started: his Leviathan. Great man, great philosopher, great analytical mind!Luigi Speranzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14910051355425799904noreply@blogger.com