Did we know this about Hobbes?, OR more depth to a TRP parody figure

[Mark Kohut]

Well, maybe since Hobbes and the Ship of State and all.............

Aristotle's Politics is just lots of particular obs, "local" rules, logical extensions.............

which may be why I found it so hard to "get" back when, since I was contaminated by the overarching metaphor tradition?....

--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Did we know this about Hobbes?, OR more depth to a TRP parody  figure
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 10:24 AM
>  Mark Kohut wrote:
> > Thomas Hobbes's influential political treatise,
> Leviathan, was first published in 1651. Many scholars have
> since credited him with a mechanistic outlook towards human
> nature that established the basis of modern Western
> political philosophy from the perspective of social contract
> theory.
> >
> 
> 
> "canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook?" (King James
> Bible - love
> that, "an hook"!)
> 
> non-rigorous Hobbes scoffing:
> here's the thing: aren't most political philosophies based
> on an extended
> metaphor?  And if this is the case, aren't they
> inferior to fiction, which can
> take in and put out multiple metaphors?
> 
> 
> -- 
> -- "Nonetheless.  Nonetheless.  None. 
> The.  Less!" - Loudon Trott to
> Nicky Finn (in "Who's That Girl")
>