Thomas Hobbes

I bought Leviathan on sale many years ago. Now I have the Gutenberg project copy. I'll report later on my readings.

From Wikipedia

``Bellum omnium contra omnes''

This is what we have right now in Mexico.

All against all.

Archimboldi and Arcimboldi?

A novelist and a painter?

I wouldn't put it past Roberto Bolaño. He had a great culture. Nevertheless at this point of my knowledge, I do not know what these two characters have in common.

 ``the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short''

that seems to be the way we are devolving in Mexico.

Yesterday in Chilpancingo we talked about the axiomatization of the Laws of Motion, by that great English thinker, Isaac Newton, around the same time as Hobbes axiomatized the laws of human nature.

It is almost eerie to read today from Wikipedia:

``Hobbes finds three basic causes of the conflict in this state of nature: competition, diffidence and glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. His first law of nature is that that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war.[2] In the state of nature, every man has a right to every thing, even to one another's body[3] but the second law is that, in order to secure the advantages of peace, that a man be willing, when others are so too… to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself.[4] This is the beginning of contracts/covenants; performing of which is the third law of nature. Injustice, therefore, is failure to perform in a covenant; all else is just. However, Hobbes also posits a primitive form of the inalienable rights—which would later be restated by John Locke--implying that some covenants may be derived axiomatically, and consequently held to be universally true.''

I am liking this man already. Hobbes was under the power of the King, but his thoughts very likely were some of the first in England that come from practicing the adage ``to live a life of reflection.'' Hobbes was a philosopher. To live ``The Reflective Life.''