Thomas Hobbes Unappreciation Thread

[ThaRealness]

Dude's philosophy is absolute authoritarian garbage... He essentially wrote that humans can't control themselves in a state of nature so they need arbitrators to determine their freedoms

But beyond that, he's just a fukking cynical dweeb

Heres Thomas Hobbes on humor "In this eternal struggle for advantage, when our competitors fail, we feel successful or superior. Humour, therefore, arises from the pleasurable recognition that we are better, or better off, than others who have failed and are thus inferior "

If I had a time machine, Id bring a single locker to the 1700s just so I could shove Thomas Hobbes in it

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

MAD ABOUT YOUR PHILOSOPHY 101 HOMEWORK, BROTHER?

 

[re'up]

"Life is short, nasty, and brutish" (unless born affluent)

 

[JahFocus CS]

the ideas that you mentioned in the OP are the same ideas that rule today, more or less

 

[YvrzTrvly]

For every hobbes like character there is a rousseau

 

[ThaRealness]

MAD ABOUT YOUR PHILOSOPHY 101 HOMEWORK, BROTHER?

Nah Im a senior... his bum ass just came up when I was researching for a comm arts paper

 

[ThaRealness]

For every hobbes like character there is a rousseau

yeah rousseau is tight

 

[Pressure]

Ahhh, I remember checking the Philosophy major box in college...



Youthful indiscretions

 

[ignorethis]

Dude's philosophy is absolute authoritarian garbage... He essentially wrote that humans can't control themselves in a state of nature so they need arbitrators to determine their freedoms

But beyond that, he's just a fukking cynical dweeb

Heres Thomas Hobbes on humor "In this eternal struggle for advantage, when our competitors fail, we feel successful or superior. Humour, therefore, arises from the pleasurable recognition that we are better, or better off, than others who have failed and are thus inferior "

If I had a time machine, Id bring a single locker to the 1700s just so I could shove Thomas Hobbes in it

.... He was right
On humor he just people like laughing at people worst off than them, plenty of comedians have said similar.