Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
In the 1600s, philosopher Thomas Hobbes introduced the concept of the Leviathan, a metaphorical representation of the all-powerful state necessary to maintain order and prevent chaos in society.
Over the last few days, we have been exploring the enlightenment as a philosophical movement. This movement started as a reaction to the significant advances in math and science, particularly Isaac Newton’s mathematical modeling of planetary movement, which described their orbits without the traditional process of metaphysics, the understanding of the planet’s first principles. From there, the …