Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

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Brommers in reply to @Jingle_Jangle

Hobbes wasn't even talking about human life in previous times, he was talking about what life would be like without a functioning society (best ruled by a king or dictator, in his view). Somehow it's been widely misquoted as a comment on previous history.

That's the point I was going to make, but I thought it might be too GC to mention the point that we discussed this when I was studying Legal Philosophy at university.

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Jingle_Jangle in reply to @Brommers

It's been a long time since I read Hobbes, Rousseau, JS Mill et al, as I subsequently discovered the works of Andy McNab and haven't looked back.

Wasn't Hobbes referring to what philosophers call a 'state of nature'?

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