Hobbes writes to his publisher, 1647:
Don't show the MS to academics; they are jealous. Don't show it to intellectuals; they are condescending. And above all, don't show it to Descartes; he's just a jerk.
Don't show the MS to academics; they are jealous. Don't show it to intellectuals; they are condescending. And above all, don't show it to Descartes; he's just a jerk.
To be fair, Descartes *was* a jerk. Here he is (1641) writing about Hobbes' critique of his earlier work. "I did not take that part of his writings seriously enough to think that I was obliged to spend my time refuting it"
Lesson: There has always been a Reviewer 2
Lesson: Someone needs to make a 'Rene and Hobbes' comic. Fewer imaginative adventures, more imaginative calumnies.
Lesson: Someone needs to make a 'Rene and Hobbes' comic. Fewer imaginative adventures, more imaginative calumnies.
Note: small error in original tweet. The letter dates from 1646, not 1647. (But it is about a 1647 publication, the second edition of Hobbes' De Cive.)
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