This is the "the privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only '" of which Thomas Hobbes wrote in Leviathan.

这是“导致荒谬的特权，在那里，什么生物都不是主体，只有人类”托马斯·霍布斯在《利维坦》写道。

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Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.

细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。

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