Fw: Wolfmann....given his real estate "holdings''

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 18 11:31:54 CDT 2009


> "man is a wolf to man." First
> attested in Plautus' Asinaria ("lupus est homo homini"), the
> sentence was drawn on by Thomas Hobbes when he wrote "Man to
> Man is an arrant Wolfe" in the opening line of the De cive,
> Epistola dedicatoria section of Leviathan as a concise
> expression of his view of human nature. 
> 
> We know TRP has alluded to Hobbes' "nasty, brutish and
> short".  
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