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Day: 11/10/2023

We are polarised. Maybe Hobbes and Rousseau can take the blame.

Posted on 11/10/2023 by John Sandeman
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Two different ways of thinking about the “natural state” of Humankind: the ideas of philosophers Thomas Hobbes (who described life as “Nasty, brutish and short”) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (who asserted humanity is naturally good) were the frame for Christopher Watkin’s… Continue Reading →

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