Epstein Secrets

tin Barrett, Pascal Boyer, Stewart Guthrie, and Harvey Whitehouse. 2 These churches have been described

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

d, refined, and learned by each of us. Like Napoleon looking at a battlfield and discovering how to spot the violent potential of industrial war. Or, Einstein reaching the deeper, invisible truths of physics as he left Newton behind: “There is no logical path to these laws,” he wrote later of the leaps that

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

ustin Barrett, Pascal Boyer, Stewart Guthrie, and Harvey Whitehouse. * These churches have been described

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