Thomas Hobbes and Thomas White on Identity and Discontinuous Existence

Green leviathan? Thomas hobbes, joel bakan and Arnold schwarzenegger.

Thomas Hobbes postulates that men are driven by "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death." The miserable consequences of this drive for power and the competing "desire of ease and sensual delight" and "fear of death and wounds" lead them to establish and obey. Substituting "profit" for "power" yields a description of the modern corporation, but without t...

Metaphor as “Deception”: Thomas Hobbes and political metaphor

Leviathan In Metaphors we live by, Lakoff and Johnson cite Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704) as the chief proponents of a philosophical trend through which " the suspicion of poetry and rhetoric became dominant in Western thought " and " metaphor and other figurative devices [became] objects of scorn " (Lakoff and Johnson 1980: 190). In his overview over " Metaphor in the Phi...

theologia negationis: maimonides and st. thomas on religious language

Dipole Moments in Thomas-Fermi-Dirac and Thomas-Fermi Theories

Thomas J . Desmarais and

Patients with pectus carinatum are at risk for a disturbed body image and reduced quality of life. Until recently, treatment required surgical reconstruction. A growing body of literature, however, now supports the use of orthotic bracing as a nonoperative alternative in select patients. This article reviews the current literature and describes the evaluation and management of children with pec...