Hobbes, Nasti, Brutus, Short & Calvin

[Ian Livingston]

That's just sayin' quite a lot, actually. I look forward to reading this.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One plister at least has spoken of historian Richard Hofstadter's influence
> on
> P's vision (esp. of the U.S.).  He, after all, wrote a famous essay turned
> into book
> about the paranoid style in American politics....RH also wrote on social
> Darwinism
> and American ideals and reality at the time of Mason & Dixon................
>
> So, I open RH's American Political Tradition and am greetied with this
> opening sentence:
> "Long ago Horace White observed that the Constitution of the United States
> "is based upon
> the philosophy of Hobbes and the religion of Calvin. It assumes that the
> natural state of
> mankind is a state of war (!!)---"Life is a State of Seige"AtD---and that
> the carnal mind is at enmity with
> God."
>
> Just sayin".
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant