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  1. Apr 2023
    1. So utopia is the idea that thepolitical order could be run better. Dystopia is the not, being the idea that the political order couldget worse.

      i never looked at it this way but i agree

    2. no oneanywhere feels properly represented by their government

      no one feels properly represented because they are not being properly represented

    1. Panopticism is the general principle of a new “political anatomy” whose object and end are not the relations of sovereignty but the relations of discipline.

      Panopticism doesn't focus on the power of the guards, but more on how well behaved the prisoners are.

    2. The crowd, a compact mass, a locus of multiple exchanges, individualities merging together, a collective effect, is abolished and replaced by a collection of separated individualities.

      no diversity, just left alone with your thoughts all day

    3. The plague is met by order; its function is to sort out every possible confusion: that of the disease, which is transmitted when bodies are mixed together; that of the evil, which is increased when fear and death overcome prohibitions.

      Everyone is separated to better their health and prevent violence but social interaction is what builds character.

    4. “In this way he will find out easily enough whether dead or sick are being concealed.”

      What would happen if someone didn't appear at the window and he isn't dead or sick?

    5. yndics and guards will move about the streets and also, between the infected houses

      This is similar to how essential workers were the only people that should've been outside because of work and others should have only went outside if they needed something.

    6. thus allowing each person to receive his ration without communicating with the suppliers and other residents

      This is similar to how food delivery services had to drop off food without contact with the customer during covid.

  2. Mar 2023
    1. The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such thingsas are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtainthem

      I agree with what Hobbes is saying in this sentence because he is basically saying in order to be peaceful we need to feel safe, get the things we want, and be useful in society.

    2. In such condition there is no place for industry, because thefruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigationnor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodiousbuilding, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require muchforce, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, noletters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violentdeath, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

      I think right here Hobbes is telling us what he thinks life would be like with no government. We wouldn't live very long and in a state of constant fear.

    3. The first maketh man invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, forreputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men’spersons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, fortrifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue,either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, theirnation, their profession, or their name.

      Here, Hobbes is basically explaining how the things man does pertains to each cause of quarrel.

    4. forthey see their own wit at hand and other men’s at a distance.

      According to Hobbes, we tend to be so close-minded that we don't look at things from the point of view of others.

    5. Forprudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men inthose things they equally apply themselves unto.

      Hobbes is saying we become wiser with experience. We only gain wisdom of the things we associate ourselves with.

    6. one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body orof quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the differencebetween man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereuponclaim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

      I think Hobbes is basically saying when there's two people, one is going to be better than the other at something and the latter cannot tolerate this and that's why there's difference in the world.

  3. Feb 2023
    1. present cultural state of America would give us agood opportunity for studying the damage to civilization w

      Has civilization really been that damaged for it to be a good study?

    2. The work ofcivilization has become increasingly the business of men, it confronts them with ever more difficult tasksand compels them to carry out instinctual sublimations of which women are little capable.

      this may have something to do with gender roles and stereotypes

    3. must have suggested to him that he should continue to seek the satisfaction ofhappiness in his life along the path of sexual relations and that he should make genital erotism thecentral point of his life.

      Is this explaining why many men tend to sexualize all women?

    4. vicissitude

      regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange

    5. that a laborious training is needed before they learn to follow the example of their celestial models.

      similar to the training required before actually starting a job and doing things your own way that still follow the rules

    6. it is very difficult to forman opinion whether and in what degree men of an earlier age felt happier and what part their culturalconditions played in the matter.

      I feel like we can all attest to this because there are things that used to make us happy but no longer make us as happy.

    7. it is so full of misery that we canonly welcome death as a deliverer?

      agree because many people joke about death in today's generation even though it is no laughing matter

    8. hey appeared to Europeans to beleading a simple, happy life with few wants, a life such as was unattainable by their visitors with theirsuperior civilization.

      Europeans didn't "discover" the land but instead intruded the people that were already there.

    9. the superior power of nature, the feebleness of our ownbodies and the inadequacy of the regulations which adjust the mutual relationships of human beings inthe family, the state and society.

      I believe the author is saying our happiness is determined by three things out of our control: the unexpected things in nature, bodily functions we can't control, and the outcome of relationships we're not able to control all the time.

    1. W hether a group is oppressed depends on whether it issubject to one or more of the five conditions I shall discuss below.

      answers my question on whether or not you need all or just one face of oppression in order to be considered oppressed

    2. . Sometimes a group comes to exist onlybecause one group excludes and labels a category of persons

      This is 100% true in my opinion because if you think about, this is how majority of groups were created. Segregation is a good example. For instance, the D9 was created to uplift the Black community because Black people weren't allowed in white sororities and fraternities.

    3. he self is a produce of social processes,not their origin.

      I agree with this because yes we come from our parents, but at the end of the day, we determine what kind of person we're going to be.

    4. I believe it is not possible to giveone essential definition of oppression

      Because each oppressed group has their own privileged group in relation to that group, I agree with what the author is saying right here.

    5. Someone who does not see a pane of glass does not know that he does not see d.Someone who, being placed differently, does see it does not know the other doesnot see i

      This is a very interesting way to open an article about oppression, and I think it will be very meaningful to the article.