Epstein Secrets

"On Seeing Human: A Three-Factor Theory of Anthropomorphism," Psychological Review 114(2007): 864-86. Sheldon Sacks, ed., On Metaphor (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978); David Tracy, The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism (New York: Crossroad, 1981). Alain Besancon, Th

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

of central planning collapsed under its own weight with the USSR in 1989, 32 “Is there a greater tragedy”: F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 32 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018264 In our own age, a fundamental conflict lingers as well. This is the struggle between individual liberty and conn

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

, “On Seeing Human: A Three-Factor Theory of Anthropomorphism,” Psychological Review 114 (2007): 864-86. ' Sheldon Sacks, ed., On Metaphor (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978); David Tracy, The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism (New Y ork: Crossroad, 1981). ' Alain Besancon, The

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