DAY 271
Leviathan
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
How much freedom are we willing to surrender for the sake of order?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I first opened this book, I was overwhelmed by its chilling pronouncement: the war of all against all. Hobbes's insight does not stop at a pessimistic view of human selfishness. He traces the desperate process by which people, amid the terror of disorder, somehow forge an agreement to secure peace and survival. Is our willingness to surrender our own power to that vast monster called the state really a thing of the past?
— ONGO · Curator
"The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"인간의 삶은 고독하고, 가난하고, 험악하고, 잔인하며, 그리고 짧다."
🌱Apply It Today
Reflect on which of your anxieties the rules of your community or organization were built to ease, and weigh the rights you gave up against the security you gained.
📚 Read for Free · Public Domain
✦ Threads woven through this book
🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
白日夢
Daylight Dream
백일몽 · a brief flight from now
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