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Showing posts with label Election debate. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Hobbes on Trump’s debating ‘style’ and tax records –a tweet

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.[1]

Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)



[1] Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed A.P. Martinich (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press), p. 97 (Ch. XIII).