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More on my dissertation

Friday, September 26, 2008

Sometimes I feel what I’ve written is a load of terrible, superficial crap. Other times I feel that I’ve written something that will at least hold the attention of the less than ten people who will read the whole dissertation – and, better, that they might find something interesting or useful in it. I am [...]

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Primal Liberty

Saturday, August 2, 2008

It has been suggested that the Indian depicted on the bottom right of the frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes’ De Cive – the representation of primal libertas – was inspired by John White’s watercolors. Below is Plate 48 from America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White edited by Paul Hulton (U. North Carolina Press and [...]

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Political Animals: Bees

Sunday, June 15, 2008

The work known as Feminine Monarchie was first published in 1609 by Charles Butler went through a number of editions during the course of the seventeenth century in England. The original 1609 edition was entitled The Feminine Monarchie or a Treatise Concerning Bees, and the Due Ordering of Them: Wherein the Truth, Found Out by [...]

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Philosophy of the Fart?

Saturday, April 26, 2008

From Chapter VIII, paragraph 2, “Of the Pleasure of the Sense,” of Hobbes’ Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: And first for the pleasures of the body which affect the sense of touch and taste, as far forth as they be organical, their conception is sense; so also is the pleasure of all exonerations of [...]

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