When Thomas Hobbes looked at an England torn apart by civil war,he penned his first outlines for what was going to be a classic in pragmatic authoritarian philosophy: Leviathan. Centuries earlier a Chinese aristocrat called Han Fei looked at the warring states of the period so-called in Chinese history, and he started propagating a […]The post The Chinese Hobbes – Xi Jinping’s favourite philosopher appeared first on Hong Kong Free Press. Author: A. Jacobus.
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