Where politics and philosophy meet, get drunk and do things they’ll both regret.
Who Are You, Anyway?
Thomas W. Hobbes is the embarassing heir to the legacy of social contract theory.
What this ’state of nature’ anyway?
This blog’s title owes to a school of philosophy called social contract theory. Exploring the theoretical origins of government and society, many social contract theorians reference the “state of nature,” a time before society.
What’s social contract theory?
Fucking read it yourself, lazy ass.