tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post114415515167391821..comments2023-08-11T10:04:41.498-05:00Comments on Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: Hobbes v. Aristotle (While Taking a Sick Boy to the Doctor)Sandalstrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-1144188521596217042006-04-04T17:08:00.000-05:002006-04-04T17:08:00.000-05:00Brian,To 3 and 4:I may be wrong, but my paper argu...Brian,<BR/><BR/>To 3 and 4:<BR/><BR/>I may be wrong, but my paper argues that Aristotle and Hobbes have similarly teleological approaches. That is, both Aristotle and Hobbes begin with some account of human nature, and then derive a politics from that account of human nature.<BR/><BR/>If it is not the case that Hobbes' politics is derived similarly to Aristotle's, then I don't think that my paperSandalstrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-1144169586871640752006-04-04T11:53:00.000-05:002006-04-04T11:53:00.000-05:00Brian,Some brief answers to some of your questions...Brian,<BR/><BR/>Some brief answers to some of your questions for now. More later, as I mull them over.<BR/><BR/>1. The Arendt comment was for J. Barry's benefit, as he is:<BR/><BR/>a.) infatuated with Hannah Arendt,<BR/><BR/>b.) the chair of the philosophy department at IUS, and as such involved with the seminar in question, and<BR/><BR/>c.) prone to use Arendt's argument that Hobbes wasn't Sandalstrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.com