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The eminent Hobbesian scholar Richard Tuck may be exaggerating when he describes Hobbes as a "utopian", but we can at least say that this aspect of Hobbes's thought places him much closer to the optimistic ameliorism of the rationalist tradition than to the changeless pessimism of the realists. Cantilevered off these concrete piers, in a dynamically organic deduction of compression and tension that acknowledges French Rationalist traditions, is the undulating steel canopy. Carter thus denies the rationalist tradition of Aquinas, Maimonides, Averroes, and their vast number of modern expositors. |
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