sabato 31 ottobre 2009

Rationalizing the following "word-image"

Here there is a list of the words used by Hobbes in the Fourth Part of Leviathan, ordered by frequency.
At the top of the list we encounter God

And maybe...the political body (as it was depicted on the cover of 1651) is the embodied threshold that marks the ontological way of indifference between God and Leviathan...

WORDS COUNTS
God 166
Men 127
Man 115
Power 96
Say 91
Place 73
Time 67
Body 66
Worship 62
Kingdom 59
Civil 59
Christ 56
Church 55
Life 53
Words 53
Make 51
Hath 50
Scripture 50
People 50
Doctrine 48
Nature 47
World 45
Law 44
Image 40
Death 40
Authority 37
Philosophy 36

giovedì 29 ottobre 2009

A study on Leviathan

A text analysis - Leviathan - The Fourth Part - The King of Darkness

managed with wordle (a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide)



lunedì 26 ottobre 2009

A question of Hubris

Gorboduc , or the Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex, is a rinascimental representation of hubris, usurpations and abuses, the deepest violations of law's sanctity, whose secrets are safeguarded by the patriarches of the Inns.

For the influence of Gorboduc on King Lear see this reference

Reading

McCall Smith last novel, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built has conquered me!
Once again Precious Ramotswe's shrewdness is one of the best device to compete with every day life!

A recall to the past

Grasping the meaning of my intellectual origins....I find the following link very intriguing and exciting
Classical Greek sources