The Limits of Human Nature: Essays Based on a Course of Lectures Given at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, LondonJonathan Benthall |
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... Hobbes's work . The first is to detach it too completely from its time for Quentin Skinner3 has certainly shown that Leviathan had immediate political implications which were perceived by Hobbes's contemporaries . They knew that his ...
... Hobbes's work . The first is to detach it too completely from its time for Quentin Skinner3 has certainly shown that Leviathan had immediate political implications which were perceived by Hobbes's contemporaries . They knew that his ...
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... Hobbes's reply - absolutely correct in terms of his theory - was that the beggar's distress caused him distress and by relieving the beggar he relieved himself . " But the reply itself creates another puzzle , for it reveals an ...
... Hobbes's reply - absolutely correct in terms of his theory - was that the beggar's distress caused him distress and by relieving the beggar he relieved himself . " But the reply itself creates another puzzle , for it reveals an ...
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... Hobbes appears to envisage these as being so established that it will appear self- contradictory to question them . The simplest example is Hobbes's claim that what the sovereign does is by definition just — ' just ' means here ' in ...
... Hobbes appears to envisage these as being so established that it will appear self- contradictory to question them . The simplest example is Hobbes's claim that what the sovereign does is by definition just — ' just ' means here ' in ...
Contents
Human Nature and Structure | 20 |
The Limits of Man and His Predicament | 49 |
Human Virtue and Human Nature | 74 |
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action agonistic amour de soi analysis animal argued argument Artificial Intelligence aspects basic behaviour biological body called causes chimpanzees Chomsky concept context Cratylus culture deep structures described Desmond Morris discussion dominant environment essay ethologists ethology evidence evolution example existence fact fear formal Freud function genes genetic green cube hedonic Herbert Marcuse heterarchical Hobbes Hobbes's human nature ibid idea ideology incest individual intelligence kind knowledge language Lévi-Strauss limits of human linguistic logic macaque Malthus man's Marcuse Marx means mechanical mental mind moral notion objects organization paperback particular patterns philosophers physical picture political possible primates problem programme psychoanalysis psychology pyramid question rational reason recessive genes red block Reich relations relationship rhesus macaque Rousseau scientific sense sentence Social Darwinism society sort species theory things thought tion transcendence understanding universal virtues whole Wilhelm Reich words