Originally Posted by StGeorger
Hobbes vs. Locke viewpoints of mankind.


Yep I found his grasp of the historical traditions and the anthropological underpinnings of the positions powerful.

I’ve always wondered how the Calvinists of the NE became so Liberal; seems like an oxymoron.

Originally Posted by George_De_Vries_3rd

Thomas Sowell: “if a government is given enough power to create social justice it has enough power to create despotism.”

Me: “and it will.”


Exactly right brother.