Thursday, December 30, 2010

Thomas Hobbes on Facts as the 'Brute Beasts' of the Intellectual Domain

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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."

-Thomas Hobbes

A video of a class lecture at Yale on the sovereign state and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan:

Primary Source: The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Secondary Source: Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Tuck

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