My take is more positive, and that he was just really inspired by his time in Italy with Galileo. He applies ideas of physics and motion in his theories about the inner workings of the human body, and you see the influence all around the text. We all know that feeling of discovering something new and excitedly applying it to everything, the cover art alone screams that he was absolutely blown away with the idea that everything is connected, at every scale. I believe he was trying to persuade people to move beyond all of the silly superstitious beliefs, which he was frustrated by and probably considered small minded, and into a more reasonable and modern kind of thinking about spirituality. Which Isn't strange at all, and I agree doesn't make him an atheist. In fact it's pretty impressive if you consider the time period and the risk he took to be so bold. I think sometimes, one will see the term savage, or read something sexist, and immediately align against the person from a modern moral standpoint. We should guard against these biases that apply a lens of pessimism, because at that point objectivity is lost. It's interesting how things have changed in hindsight, and that is a great conversation, but in analysis of the text and the writer, I believe we have to consider the reality it was written in and nothing more.
Are our state institutions the sole monopoly of an overwhelming military/police force over any other groups/individuals within their jurisdiction? There's a reason why such force is called the "Leviathan force".
Women: no they are definitely not as strong ad men. So this breaks down Dobbs (or this guy's) whole argument. Their state of nature is being weaker than men. The argument that the man is like the king is short sighted, though imaginative, because in the natural state, male and female roles are different, like societies among themselves. Men don't tread in women's world and women don't encroach on the men's world, though they interact. In fact, this is a natural state that women and men's worlds are self contained while primarily they cooperate .
