The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Hobbes and Reconciliation
In our calmer moments "we will see that we should deprive ourselves of the capacity to act on our independent and contentious judgment, as long as others do likewise, so that we can align our judgments with those of other men in order to form a civil society. If this is right, then the force of the 'law' of nature does arise from considerations of self-interest, or at least from those of self-preservation." Hobbes' Leviathan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. xxxii.
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