…each other, to define each other by categories of race, sex age and so forth, and we have an angelic capacity as well. Thomas Hobbes, One of the great paranoids of western civilization, said: man to man is like unto an errant beast, and man to man is…

…generation to receive what has always been called a traditional liberal education. It means they read John Stuart Mill, Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Aquinas they read all that stuff, the core works of western civilization and they took psychedelics and they began…

…give them 500 channels of TV and let's try and hold on to the social engine here no more John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hobbes for these people they take it too seriously. Yeah, when you talk about it when you speak about the expansion of consciousness.…

…encounter in the modern era, broadly speaking when we and Rupert mentioned by chance this morning this name, is that of Thomas Hobbes, the great theoretician of social. Paranoia is always how I've thought of Hobbes until I began to look at this machine…

…this morning this name, is that of Thomas Hobbes, the great theoretician of social. Paranoia is always how I've thought of Hobbes until I began to look at this machine intelligence question and Hobbes, in his leviathan, makes it very clear that society…

…of social. Paranoia is always how I've thought of Hobbes until I began to look at this machine intelligence question and Hobbes, in his leviathan, makes it very clear that society is a complex system of mechanical feedback loops and relationships that…

…in his leviathan, makes it very clear that society is a complex system of mechanical feedback loops and relationships that though Hobbes did not have the vocabulary to state this relationships that can be defined by code. This leads me to the second…

…took this from the greeks, we perfected it through the romans, we brought it up through the Medieval Period John Locke and Thomas Hobbes and all those folks fixed it up for us in the 18th century, Thomas Jefferson ironed out the wrinkles and modern…

…dimension that organic life is on the brink of undergoing and that the reason we are so peculiar, so self contradictory. So you know, Thomas Hobbes said man to man is likened to an errant beast and man to man is likened to a god. And the reason for…

…western civilization. Essentially, the American dream perfected itself in my generation. I came out of the University, I had read Plato, Hobbes, Schopenhauer, Jeremy Bent the whole bit. I knew it backwards and forwards. And what did we do we people who had…

…right no this persists right up until well to this moment. But for instance the quote I always love is from Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. Thomas Hobbes, you know was the great theoretician of modern government and social organization and he was basically a…

…persists right up until well to this moment. But for instance the quote I always love is from Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. Thomas Hobbes, you know was the great theoretician of modern government and social organization and he was basically a paranoid sob. And…

…the cromwellian revolution was disposed of and newton published the principia in England people like John Locke and Hume and Thomas Hobbes began to work out the social implications of all this, while newton and Leibniz and other people on the continent…