I think Hobbes is kind of arguing against the idea of people as a collective sucking big hairy donkey balls, though. What I got out Leviathan was that he thought people as individuals were donkey teabaggees, which was why they needed to be controlled by the state, which makes them a social collective and therefore gives rise to morality by way of law and punishment. I'm pretty much the worst philosophy student of all time, though, so I could def. be wrong.
Also, I very rarely pay attention to what we're actually learning in class because my prof has such an interesting accent. He's a Ukranian-Canadian who's spent a lot of time in London and Prague, and the result is so fantastic it makes what he's actually saying way less important to me than the way he's saying it.
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on 2010-03-02 02:15 am (UTC)(except, you know, not)
I think Hobbes is kind of arguing against the idea of people as a collective sucking big hairy donkey balls, though. What I got out Leviathan was that he thought people as individuals were donkey teabaggees, which was why they needed to be controlled by the state, which makes them a social collective and therefore gives rise to morality by way of law and punishment. I'm pretty much the worst philosophy student of all time, though, so I could def. be wrong.
Also, I very rarely pay attention to what we're actually learning in class because my prof has such an interesting accent. He's a Ukranian-Canadian who's spent a lot of time in London and Prague, and the result is so fantastic it makes what he's actually saying way less important to me than the way he's saying it.