lordkalkin

Today, I read about 78 pages of Hobbes's Leviathan. Either I'm nuts, or school has started once again. I'm actually glad to be taking the Hobbes course because I really feel like a major obstacle to selling anarchy is the Hobbesian perception that we need a state to prevent the war of each against all. I guess not so many people read Rousseau. Anyway, after getting through just the first 13 chapters, I can already see the problems in Hobbes's account of human nature of unregulated society. I'm sure I'll end up writing my paper on a few of those points, keeping track of them as I go through the rest of the book.

Other than that, I've opted to change my schedule a little bit and take a phil of mind course rather than the phil of law course I was going to take. I really just have very little interest in the nature of law. From what I can tell, law simply refers to words on paper, not natural law or natural rights or any of that stuff. Now, you offer me swampmen and zombies, and I'm sold.

I'm glad I got this Hobbes reading done by now. I don't have much in the way of other assignments since I've only been to one class, so I can just relax the rest of the night. Tomorrow after class, I'll get started on the short paper for Hobbes and whatever other reading I'll have by then. I also have to return some books to the bookstore. Busy, busy, busy.