{"id":19,"date":"2013-11-01T00:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T07:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/?p=19"},"modified":"2013-11-01T00:10:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T07:10:05","slug":"questions-for-leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/2013\/11\/01\/questions-for-leviathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for Leviathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple questions about Hobbes&#8217; <em>Leviathan.\u00a0<\/em>A bit late, but hey, maybe something can be made out of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. How much does fear play a part in Hobbes notion of the state?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is in regards to the idea of man in his pre-social condition, and I suppose could be complemented by the question:<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. How can we view Hobbes work,\u00a0especially\u00a0the idea of man in his state of nature, through a\u00a0psychoanalytical\u00a0lens?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. How does the idea of being\u00a0imprisoned\u00a0factor into Hobbes sovereign state?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Is <em>Leviathan,\u00a0<\/em>undoubtedly\u00a0a utopian\u00a0or normative project, does not seem to fit into Hobbes&#8217; definition of the imagination. How do we place this text within Hobbes&#8217; philosophy when considering it as a creative work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Does Hobbes&#8217; materialism undermine the importance he puts on power in Chapter X (especially section [5])?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>or am I just unclear on what materialism is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple questions about Hobbes&#8217; Leviathan.\u00a0A bit late, but hey, maybe something can be made out of them. 1. How much does fear play a part in Hobbes notion of the state? This is in regards to the idea of man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/2013\/11\/01\/questions-for-leviathan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20787,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/joshgd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}