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January 8, 2025

Thoughtlets LVII. Thomas Hobbes & Antonio Damasio

Two barebones comparisons of quotes from Chapter II of Antonio Damasio’s Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain and Part I: Chapter 13 of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Note: On Damasio’s view emotion and feeling are separate entities, although emotion both underpins and is intricately related to feeling. Emotions are “collections of reflex responses, Continue reading

Philosophy, Social and Political Commentary, Thoughtlets

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February 24, 2022

Bread and Circuses

(Originally posted Oct. 24, 2020) Somewhere around the second century CE, the Roman satirist Juvenal coined the phrase ‘bread and circuses’ which has come to mean placating one’s populace with cheap bribes to distract them from their political grievances. Here’s the logic. Thomas Hobbes observed that “If any two men [sic] desire the same thing, Continue reading

Social and Political Commentary

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