Thomas Hobbes
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Victor Nuovo: Creating Civil Society
Thomas Hobbes’ political philosophy is a paradoxical fabric. On the one hand, his view of mankind is uncomplimentary, bordering on the defamatory; and yet he also imagines our…
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Victor Nuovo: The death of a nation
In the introduction to his magisterial work, “Leviathan,” Thomas Hobbes invites his readers to imagine the civil state as an animal, an artificial life created by human art in imitation of the divine.…
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Victor Nuovo: Hobbes would view Trump as unfit
Calvin and Hobbes are well known names, although mostly because of the celebrated comic strip figures who bear them, and not because of the historical personages whose names they bear.…