As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first. — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience. — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
“Since it all appeared so scientific, and we wanted to hear it, Kinsey’s pseudo-science became foundational for the sexual revolution, used both in courts… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known. — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image