Quote Originally Posted by Centurion1 View Post
What may I ask is wrong with Leviathan by thomas hobbes? It is a read everyone should have to do.some of his ideas on the nation were inspired.
Leviathan from a purely philosophical standpoint has so many problems. I took a philosophy course that touched on it at University a couple of years ago and the largest issue boils down to his natural state where he assumes two things:
1) All people are relatively equal
2) The strong will prey on the weak
These two things are not at all philosophically coherent and then the conclusions that he draws from them are bizarre. One that leaps to mind is "We need a strong state that has the right to censor whatever it wants" without proving the underlying basis for censorship. Large logical leaps such as this are replete throughout the text.
Oh and ca look ahead a little bit just finished rereading all martins books. Some of my favorites. Please engage me in discussion about them I don't know who to talk with about them your the first other reader I've met
I want your opinion on something - did you find that the people you were drawn to like the most were the people who had physical disabilities or were in some way 'other'? For me the people I most like are Bran, Jon and Tyrion. A cripple, a bastard and a dwarf respectively. Very few of the true 'heroes' of the story seem to be 'normal'. That brings me to another thing that I found interesting - you are constantly questioning who could be considered the person most deserving of the throne.