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Consider the Englishman Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), whose Leviathan set off a shockwave when it was published in 1651. Hobbes was censured, condemned and castigated, and yet we still know his name, while his criticasters are long forgotten. My edition of The Oxford History of Western Philosophy describes his magnum opus as ‘the greatest work of political philosophy ever written’. Or take the French philosopher JeanJacques Rousseau got him (1712–78), who penned a succession of volumes that into ever-deeper trouble. He was condemned, his books were burned and a warrant was issued for his arrest. But while the names of all his petty persecutors are lost to memory, Rousseau remains known to this day.
✏️ The two philosophers with opposing views that are pitted against each other regularly 📖 (Page 45)