Hence, in Hobbesian terms, it was that form of war which encompasses the natural state of man. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Is that kind of Hobbesian environment really what VWs should aspire to being?. From Wordnik.com. [Law is code] Reference
For example: Kagan repeatedly labels "Hobbesian" the international anarchy that he invokes to justify America's muscular unilateralism. From Wordnik.com. [America and the World] Reference
This Hobbesian view is widely shared in the Pentagon. From Wordnik.com. [Tomorrow's New Face Of Battle] Reference
NBC's view of the Internet is Hobbesian in its bleakness. From Wordnik.com. [Art Brodsky: Movie Companies Want Protection From FCC] Reference
But a Hobbesian make-over of this ape won't happen any time soon. From Wordnik.com. [Frans de Waal: Bonobos and Paula Jones] Reference
To use the Hobbesian phrase, "life was nasty, brutish and short". From Wordnik.com. [Inaugural lecture of the Parliamentary Millennium Project] Reference
It is a Hobbesian world, after all, we are reminded, and war is messy. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Hindes: Think For Yourself! John McCain and Our Republic Draw the Line on Semantics, Weasel Words, and Torture] Reference
I take it you do not subscribe to the Hobbesian world view, Mr Massie. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
But to lessen the Hobbesian barbarity of this administration's perpetual. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Belzer: Food Insecurity?] Reference
Unlike many Europeans, Americans largely accept the Hobbesian worldview. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Hindes: Think For Yourself! John McCain and Our Republic Draw the Line on Semantics, Weasel Words, and Torture] Reference
The nominating season will be a Hobbesian grind: nasty, brutish and short. From Wordnik.com. [Get Ready For Mr. Relentless] Reference
European intellectuals disagree with America's Hobbesian view of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom Lost] Reference
Goldman built a beautiful machine for infiltrating all parts of Hobbesian finance. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Teitelman: Transactions: May 3, 2010] Reference
It's a Hobbesian state of nature, where the strong take from the weak, sick, old. From Wordnik.com. [Kyl: 'I Don't Need Maternity Care.' Stabenow: 'Your Mom Probably Did'] Reference
TR: Describing Iraq as a Hobbesian state worse than a civil war makes one a leftist?. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Ricks Doesn't Want to Be Called A Lefty (Jump In, Tom, the Water's Fine)] Reference
Behind them is the Hobbesian presupposition that man lives in a natural state of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Success of Failure] Reference
Many people would agree that modern-day Somalia represents a Hobbesian state of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Malou Innocent: Adam Smith Goes to Somalia: "Competition Keeps Prices Low"] Reference
While all our attention is focused on Iraq, our neighbor is descending into Hobbesian chaos. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Gardels: While US Focuses on Iraq, Mexico is Collapsing] Reference
The family, society even, will break down and devolve into a Hobbesian war of all against all. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Wilson: Dare To Discipline: How Obama-Critic Whipped The Mini Weiner Dog Rebellion] Reference
When a liberal pundit fawns over China's global-warming policies, one sees the Hobbesian within. From Wordnik.com. [Real Government Efficiency] Reference
The state is back, and for the oldest Hobbesian reason in the book -- the provision of security. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of The End Of History] Reference
Cormac McCarthy muses on the nature of morality in the Hobbesian anarchy of his novel The Road. From Wordnik.com. [Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing] Reference
Parts of Africa and Latin America still haven't crossed the Hobbesian threshold, says Subramanian. From Wordnik.com. [A New Economic Order] Reference
This Hobbesian vision springs to mind because we have failed to declare health care a basic human right. From Wordnik.com. [John F. Wasik: Future of Health Care Is Nasty, Brutish and Short] Reference
Political freedom and nobler human relations flow from a Spinozistic as against a Hobbesian neces - sity. From Wordnik.com. [RIGHT AND GOOD] Reference
On the other hand, later empiricist philosophers, in particular Locke and Hume, develop several Hobbesian themes. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hobbes] Reference
In time these "peaceful primates" engage in a Hobbesian war of all against all: they come to kill, to inflict pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimps Stage A Trojan War] Reference
One of its consequences was a move from Afghanistan, left in a Hobbesian 'state of nature' – war of all against all. From Wordnik.com. [Imperial America: success or failure] Reference
Ever since they lost their majority in the 2006 elections, Republicans in Congress have faced a true Hobbesian dilemma. From Wordnik.com. [Today Is Super Tuesday. Will Republicans Finally Bail on Bush on Wednesday?] Reference
Now that we've made Iraq a Hobbesian mess that could never support these people because they have a target on their back. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2007] Reference
Bolivia was second only to Chile as a laboratory of 'neoliberalism', the jargon for capitalism in its pure, Hobbesian form. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pilger: A Glimpse Of Freedom] Reference
The De la Courts adopted the basic features of Hobbesian anthropology, but eschewed juridical concepts like “right” and. From Wordnik.com. [Spinoza's Political Philosophy] Reference
To refute Hobbesian egoism is to show that the individual has authentic inner sentiments of a social or other - oriented nature. From Wordnik.com. [RIGHT AND GOOD] Reference
But, there might be something good come of our being forced continually into Hobbesian choics if we are bright enough to seek it. From Wordnik.com. ["MY HOBBESIAN CHOICE"] Reference
Jan Narveson, on the other hand, sees the Hobbesian contractarian argument leading toward the sparse government of libertarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Contractarianism] Reference
In a country like Haiti, with its history of gangs, conflict and repression, a dog-eat-dog Hobbesian reality is all the more likely. From Wordnik.com. [Helping Haiti] Reference
The Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth, for example, devoted considerable energy to arguing against Hobbesian atheism and materialism. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hobbes] Reference
Crime has made large swaths of Latin America a Hobbesian world of brutal competition in which normal social constraints are stripped away. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Breed Of Bandit] Reference
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