Epstein Secrets

ll) and life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"( I). While this colorful description is often quoted, less attention is paid to Hobbes' premise that such misery can be avoided if humans codify and enforce the rules of a civil society. Not everyone agrees with Hobbes' views, but hi

orbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm, trans. Jane Marie Todd (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000); Joseph Leo Komer, The Reformation of the Image (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). Merritt Y. Hughes, "Earth Felt the Wound," English Literary History 36 (1969): 193-21

in awe, they are in that condition which is called war,” he wrote. “Such a war as is of every man against every man.”°’ A precondition of peace, for Hobbes, was that some country or force or tribe decisively grips a region, an empire, even the globe. “A common power to keep them all in awe,” fulfilled a

s of Enlightenment Europe would use, gleefully at times, to claw apart most of the old structures.?? Luther's heresy led initially to the Wars of the Reformation, battles that pulled every European royal family into a struggle between church and state, and then between each other. The bloodletting of The Thirt

nst all) and life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”(1). While this colorful description is often quoted, less attention is paid to Hobbes’ premise that such misery can be avoided if humans codify and enforce the rules of a civil society. Not everyone agrees with Hobbes’ views, but histo

e Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm, trans. Jane Marie Todd (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000); Joseph Leo Korner, The Reformation of the Image (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). ' Merritt Y. Hughes, “Earth Felt the Wound,” English Literary History 36 (1969): 193-214.