Comments (60) (Please sign in to comment)

1. 

   leftwingpatriot said, 8 months ago

   Always new Hobbes was well educated tiger.
2. 

   LX013 said, 8 months ago

   Tigers without ethics are not of interest!
3. 

   somebodyshort said, 8 months ago

   Not to mention smooching.
4. 

   rshive said, 8 months ago

   Physics and biology don’t sound like liberal arts to me. But Holmes’ artistic expression when Calvin comes home from school is pretty good.
5. 

   Sciatic said, 8 months ago

   @rshive

   have you read the dissertation
6. 

   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago

   re: demtrug.

   Philosophy was pretty straightforward until the 1700s when it took a 90 turn and ceased to be the search for truth. It became leading away people from truth. Voltaire, Kirkegard, Marx, Nietzsche, etc.
7. 

   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago

   Hobbes forgot kinetic energy. K.E. =1/2mv2.
8. 

   pouncingtiger said, 8 months ago

   Hobbes, the Rhodes scholar. Love it.
9. 

   Hykke said, 8 months ago

   @Nabuquduriuzhur

   Actually modern philosophy is still a search for the truth, it has just shifted focus from the truth about the universe (which physics has more or less nailed) and to the nature of humans, which is a lot harder to explain by natural sciences.

   Philosophy will always be about questions to which there is no definitive answer, once an answer is found, it ceases to be philosophy and becomes science.

   Strangely enough modern physics is becoming more and more like philosophy, with different theories trying to describe reality without actual evidence in experiments.
10. 

    Dogsniff said, 8 months ago

    Will Hobbes be starring in The Life of Pi?
11. 

    Dha Dha said, 8 months ago

    Good Hobbes
12. 

    Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם) said, 8 months ago

    @rshive

    Actually, they were and are – if you don’t specialize in them as your degree. I have a liberal arts degree and I took classes in both.
13. 

    Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם) said, 8 months ago

    @leftwingpatriot

    Leave it to Hobbes to shoot down Calvin’s misapprehensions about the world, especially about tigers.
14. 

    Sandy Shore said, 8 months ago

    @Hykke

    “the truth about the universe (which physics has more or less nailed)”
    
    As you later go on to say, Physics has not nailed it at all; although it is providing plenty of fascinating insights, facts and theories, it is also highlighting all we don’ know and the very many possibilities available.
    
    By no means nailed, though.
15. 

    Sandy Shore said, 8 months ago

    The ethics of attacking running animals is also explored in todays’ “Skippy”:

    http://www.gocomics.com/skippy/2012/09/27
16. Load 15 more comments. | Load the rest (45).