Thomas Hobbes / 托马斯·霍布斯
Thomas Hobbes appears in 51.厌世？反人类？童话故事？…格列佛游记可深了去了 as part of the political-theory background for reading 《格列佛游记》. The episode connects the Lilliput emperor’s tiny grandeur to the Leviathan image of sovereign authority, turning majestic political representation into comic miniature.
The episode also places Hobbes in a modern political tradition that assumes human nature is relatively fixed. That does not make Hobbes the source’s villain; he functions as one reference point for Fixed Human Nature Politics, the broader worry that politics can become a system built around unchanging human badness rather than human formation.
39.哲学家与狼：在朗格多克永恒的夏天 adds a second Hobbes-adjacent use through Loyalty Beyond Contract and Civilization As Deception. The episode questions whether social contract can civilize already-uncivilized beings, because contract itself presupposes trust, sacrifice, calculation, and enforcement; it then contrasts that contract logic with the companion loyalty between Mark Rowlands / 马克·罗兰兹 and 布列宁.
68.疯狂实验史：哎！这该死的求知欲… adds a natural-philosophy context through Hobbes’s contrast with Robert Boyle. The source uses their vacuum-experiment dispute to show that experiment, apparatus, witnessing, and inductive evidence had to win legitimacy against more deduction-centered accounts of knowledge.
Connections
- Robert Boyle - experimental-science contrast in the new source.
- 《格列佛游记》 / Gulliver’s Travels - literary text where the episode applies the comparison.
- Jonathan Swift / 乔纳森·斯威夫特 - author whose satire miniaturizes sovereign grandeur.
- Fixed Human Nature Politics - concept connecting Hobbes to the episode’s ancient/modern politics frame.
- Niccolo Machiavelli / 马基雅维利 - paired modern-political reference in the episode.
- Loyalty Beyond Contract and Civilization As Deception - Rowlands-source extension around contract, cheating, and companion loyalty.
- Experimental Science Ethics, Scientific Skepticism, and Observation Before Inference - experiment-method concepts connected by the Hobbes-Boyle contrast.