And if we go to the wiki page for Hobbes, we find the image from the inside cover of his work 'leviathan', which is about:Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Funny synchronicty today; last night I posted:
On my comics page that I read everyday, my favorite strip is Calvin and Hobbes, and I always read it first. Here is the one posted today:Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
For a long time now, I have chosen to forge ahead, and not go back too far and process past events....
In Leviathan, Hobbes set out his doctrine of the foundation of states and legitimate governments – originating social contract theory. Leviathan was written during the English Civil War; much of the book is occupied with demonstrating the necessity of a strong central authority to avoid the evil of discord and civil war.
Beginning from a mechanistic understanding of human beings and the passions, Hobbes postulates what life would be like without government, a condition which he calls the state of nature. In that state, each person would have a right, or license, to everything in the world. This, Hobbes argues, would lead to a "war of all against all" (bellum omnium contra omnes). The description contains what has been called one of the best known passages in English philosophy, which describes the natural state mankind would be in, were it not for political community:
In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
and the image itself, of 'leviathan':
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...viathan_gr.jpg.
expand the image, and look closely.





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