A Mistrust of Thunder and Lightning

Jeremy Waldron

  • Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes by Quentin Skinner
    Cambridge, 477 pp, £15.95, July 1997, ISBN 0 521 59645 9

‘He that hath good thoughts, and cannot clearly express them, were as good to have thought nothing at all.’ The quotation is from a speech by Pericles in an English translation of The History of the Peloponnesian War that Thomas Hobbes published in 1629. The sentiment expressed is one that haunted him throughout his intellectual endeavours.

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