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Decoding Desire: How Hobbes Unraveled Human Emotions and Built a Blueprint for Society
This section talks about the ethics part of Hobbes’ philosophy. According to his definition, the research object of ethics is human temperament and behavior, which is actually human nature. Philosophy studies objects, and human nature is also an object. He tries to study human nature as an objective thing and find its laws. He concluded that desire is the most basic factor in human nature, and desire can explain all human emotions, moods and behaviors. His views on life issues, including happiness and morality, and his politics are also based on his understanding of human nature. 1. Desire is a basic factor in human nature Hobbes regarded desire as the…
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Each man is his own god
For a long, long time, I couldn’t figure out one question: why do people go to horror novels or movies? Why do people create horrors out of nothing to scare themselves? Why does the protagonist of a horror story go to a rather suspicious attic instead of hiding in the safety of his own bed in the dead of night? Can’t we wait until another day? Later, when I grew up a little bit and knew a little bit more about the world, I finally realized: it turns out that the real world is always scarier than stories. The theme of horror stories is not horror, but courage. It helps…
