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Trystan's avatar

Do you and the Sec Def The Rock coordinate because this is an uncanny publishing habit

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James's avatar

Yeah it's actually synced on our calendars

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Trystan's avatar

That's what I figured. ;)

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Zack Holman's avatar

James do you still have the chronological political/defense philosophy reading list you used to have on Twitter?

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Zack Holman's avatar

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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Zack Holman's avatar

Thanks!

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Nathaniel Walden's avatar

Nicely laid out. Yeah, Hobbesian conditions are so frequently misunderstood as mere pessimism due to his experience in the English civil war, but it really is a very structural, almost materialist argument

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James's avatar

Which if I remember right, is what Rousseau criticized him over, his rationalist view of the State of Nature

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