Foundations Of Modern World Essay
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Foundations Of Modern World Essay #1 Comprehensive Readings Essay Hobbes, Descartes There have been many different texts that have had an impact on me this semester. The ones that I chose specifi... cally were Thomas Hobbes, and Rene Descartes. I chose these because they hall have some sort of common grace to them. They all have some truth that really stuck out to me. Although there were some things that I might not have agreed with, there was one thing in common with all of them. They all had a common grace insight to them. They were both challenging to my conceptual framework. I chose Thomas Hobbes as one of my texts because I believe that he hits really hard on the concept of common grace that we learned in the first lecture. Common grace is God’s grace that is common to all man enabling them to refrain from sin and express truth. And common grace insight is the observation that one observes that reflects truth. Hobbes’ insight in Leviathan is just the sheer evil of man and the wretchedness of the human condition. After reading and studying this piece from Hobbes I sat back and just saw how much truth it all had to it. Just with what has been recently going on in the country with the whole Ferguson shooting and more recently the New York City vice officer putting a man into a chokehold and all the protests that has brought about. Hobbes says that as human beings we can’t live in peace like the living creatures d [Show More]
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