Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan | Political Philosophy 

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With regards to war, an understanding of human nature, with the help of Hobbes, leads us to conclude that humans need "war", it makes us feel alive, like we have relevance and meaning. Only by sublimating our instincts into safer forms of warfare, such as war games, sports etc. can this desire for war be worked off in a healthy way.

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We derive our appetites and aversions mostly from others, we want what somebody else has, we reject what others reject, to the extent we can control our "desires", and simultaneously convince others to control their "desires", is the extent we can avert conflict.

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Government by Consent is Government for Group Identity: 1. Government by consent is only possible by sympathetic relations between governments and their subjects. 2. The cause of oppression is a lack of a sympathetic relation between governments and their subjects. 3. Sympathy between governments and their subjects is only possible by shared intentions. 4. Popular intention is expressed by support for institutions of ideology, politics, religion, culture, language, race and economics. 5. Institutions have the primary function of maintaining, uplifting and saving a group identity. 6. Group identity is freely chosen by people with shared intentions. 7. Shared intentions arise out of desire, want, need and necessity. 8. Government by consent is government for a specific group identity.

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“Hell is truth seen too late” Thomas Hobbes

Can you please make a commentary on Han Feizi or even the entire philosophy of Legalism (China)? I would love to hear your thoughts about the book. Thank you

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James, I am not sure if you know but we once had a prime minister with the last name Muldoon and he was a very controversial figure. Very authoritarian and he was a strong supporter of Keynesianism.

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A sovereign power can only be in one place at one time. The larger the society the more ridiculous and unfair that society will become. A sovereign power can only exist fairly in a small group of individuals who are known to one another such as in a tribe of 100 individuals or less.

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Who would think that every individual, including the "sovereign", pursues only his own ends. Who would think it is a bad idea to concentrate the sovereignty into few central institutions and call it the state - the legitimate garantor of all you have. People do bad when they are not coerced to do good, so let the most unscrupulous and wicked rule us to make us good. Give power to those with highest appetite for domination, so we can be moral down there... Hobbesian notion of entering social contract out of fear of being crushed by the "sovereign" is really fantastic. You don't have to voltunarily enter the contract, the fact that you didn't burn down the local magistrate is evidence enough for your agreement with the contract. Simply fantastic notion.

What was Hobbes conception of the highest good?

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May I ask, on which page is Hobbes quote (in 16:05 minutes) in Leviathan? "To resist a sovereign is to commit an act of injustice but once a group of men have begun resisting to join this group is no longer to commit an act of further injustice".

I love that he was like "it us terrible to rebel, but maybe there are certain circumstances in ehich you could," and his contemporaries lost their minds over this authoritarian take. Lol

"...but, there's also an incredibly utopian aspect to this project." I have had my suspicions that he was demon possessed, but that statement completely settles the matter in my mind.

what movie is going on in the background?

say, is this book (in any way) related to Frankenstein. somehow just reminds me of shelley’s monster

I would argue that in a "healthy" state there should be an open dialogue between the church and the state, neither being sub-ordinate to the other. Think of the church being the side of unknown unknown and the state being on the side of the known, or order. The church should be a safe space or place where ppl can discuss where the state is going wrong or become immoral. In turn, the church will be a check and balance on where the state is becoming immoral or depraved.

Sir What is "The end of obedience in protection " -hobbes "Homo humini lupus.... " Please comment.

Hobbs was moving through Finnegan’s Wake

Acoustic Sacred Geometrical Rod’s & Cones Human Behavioral Modification by a Benevolent Leviathan to stabilize the Herd! MWM@

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No loitering in thy Universe. We need others of like minded Holographic Human Mind’s Eyes

The black and white movie... is it lord of the flies?

What is the name of the movie being shown of children being stranded on an island. Living in a "state if nature"? 🙄

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Points for the wig.

The Benevolent Leviathan is about meeting the needs of the z herds

Jajaja when the guy is dressed like Hobbes

I guess he failed, war persists.