To keep the world we now have, we definitely need, as conservative political thinkers have always insisted, to be more prudent.
Philosophers and thinkers frequently constructed grand models and schemes about humans and their societies without looking at how societies actually worked.
Groups are capable of great creativity, as in language and folksong, and even in the stimulus and support given to individual writers and thinkers.
The thinker's goal is to be as wide awake and with his eyes as wide open as possible.
However, among none of the seventeenthcentury thinkers here was there a clear-cut equation of individual with hunter-gatherer, or collective with farmer.
My own view is that there is no reversal, deliberate or indeliberate: searching for understanding of belief was common ground for both thinkers.
Entries on thinkers are supported by comments on their character.
They were social thinkers, interested in political transformation, reform and even, at least for one of the three, revolution.
