The emergence of Large Language Models(LLMs)has renewed debate about whether Artificial Intelligence(AI)can be conscious or sentient.This paper identifies two approaches to the topic and argues:(1)A“Cartesian”approa...
In his book of 1672,De Legibus Naturae,Richard Cumberland tries to refute Hobbes’s theory of human nature,demonstrating that man is not a homo insociabilis but a homo benevolens.Using Thomas Willis’s Cerebri Anatome...
In his masterpiece Leviathan(1651),Thomas Hobbes used a series of rhetorical devices in order to persuade the English reader of the truth of his political theories and of his civil science.The first rhetorical device ...
In an age when political thinkers were writing books full of quotations of ancient and modern authors,Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury(1588-1679)developed a philosophical system which was based on scientific method rather ...
What is true information in today’s world?The hunt for information is not only in the private sector―market trends and enterprise data,but also on the public sector.Information is strongly linked with incentives;lea...
William Golding,the Nobel Prize winner,depicts civilization and savagery,democracy and anarchy,reconstruction and destruction vividly in his masterpiece Lord of the Flies.Providing a more cogent interpretation of Lord...
Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (1588-1679) is one of the most influential British philosophers of the seventeenthcentury. The paper reconstructs Hobbes's legal theory, focusing on his definition of law (civil law, as...
Hobbes asserts that political power no longer needs to be founded on religious charisma (as argued by Machiavellians and libertines), because this power can be justified only by covenant, that is by the consent of p...
Peace's gift when you meet the other is not a polite phrase. This is courtesy or politeness which institutes a priority order: first the far, then the near. In Levinas' thought, there is a peace of pure rest, "at ...
In this paper, I will examine the libertine ethos of the Restoration, a period of time characterized by an aanosphere in which promiscuity and extravagance became the norm. This ideology was based on individual libert...