Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Drunkenness, which we have therefore in the last place numbred among the breaches of the Naturall Law, because it hinders the use of right Reason
Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English Political Philosopher, Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
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She was a baroness—a member of the aristocracy who was a social reformer
One of the commonalities between Lincoln and Washington were there experience in seeing alcohol cause the death and/or ruination of many. See {630833}.
When Washington was younger and running for the colonial Virginia assembly, he bought beer and rum for all the voters in his precinct. He did not then realize the damage that alcohol can do. One of the commonalities between Lincoln and Washington were their experience in seeing alcohol cause the death and/or ruination of many. See {630832}.
At the time, the traders were mostly French who traded all kinds of goods and especially alcohol—usually rum—for fur animal pelts. Many of the Indians were partial to the French and French oriented traders who did not covet their land and would provide the Indians with alcohol and guns, lead and powder while English traders sometimes tried to restrict these items. Many tribes of American Indians are genetically very susceptible to alcohol—both in terms of immediate impairment—getting drunk and in developing a dependency on having alcohol—addiction or alcoholism.
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy in general.
