Cannot wait to read this I think he has always seen the bigger picture authoritarian regimes use fear thankyou Lord Sumption always enlightened by listening to you 🙏we live in hope
Thomas Hobbs was a very instructive thinker on this subject of absolute goverment. And his argument was basiccaly very simple but it took an entire book Levithan to explain it Hobbs said the implicit bargain the people makes with the state it that the state gives them absolute safety in return they have to abounden all their freedoms and right for ever. The last two years be have been ruled by this principle. That was Hobbs view I hope all in here view this conclution as repellent.
Has an illiberal democracy (48:35) ever existed? Is there one? The very idea seems an affront to democracy, unless one is thinking of the tyranny of the majority. But surely one would not consider the latter a democracy worthy of the name. And one where the rule of law governs? In all probability what one finds there is rule by law.
Thomas Hobbs was a very instructive thinker on this subject of absolute goverment. And his argument was basiccaly very simple but it took a complete book Levithan to explain it Hobbs said the implicit bargain the people makes with the state it that the state gives them absolute safety in return they have to abounden all their freedoms and right for ever. The last two years be have been ruled by this principle. That was Hobbs view I hope all in here view this conclution as repellent
Thomas Hobbs was a very instructive thinker on this subject of absolute goverment. And his argument was basiccaly very simple but it took a complete book Levithan to explain it Hobbs said the implicit bargain the people makes with the state it that the state gives them absolute safety in return they have to abounden all their freedoms and right for ever. The last two years be have been ruled by this principle. That was Hobbs view I hope all in here view this conclution as repellent
Cannot wait to read this I think he has always seen the bigger picture authoritarian regimes use fear thankyou Lord Sumption always enlightened by listening to you 🙏we live in hope
I greatly admire this gentleman. Wonderful thinker and speaker.
Yep..he's never far off the mark
Thank you.
A voice of careful reason throughout the pandemic. Great chat.
Thomas Hobbs was a very instructive thinker on this subject of absolute goverment. And his argument was basiccaly very simple but it took an entire book Levithan to explain it Hobbs said the implicit bargain the people makes with the state it that the state gives them absolute safety in return they have to abounden all their freedoms and right for ever. The last two years be have been ruled by this principle. That was Hobbs view I hope all in here view this conclution as repellent.
I agree with Lord Sumption on the lockdowns.
Lawlessness in a Time of Crisis.
Fixed.
Is this the second edition? If so, is it substantially different to the first?
But Sumption isn't shouting his opinions in a loud regional accent. He can't possible be right!
who were the judges he declined to name that recently left the bench?
45:14 Coronavirus Act
How wrong he was about the EU.
Has an illiberal democracy (48:35) ever existed? Is there one? The very idea seems an affront to democracy, unless one is thinking of the tyranny of the majority. But surely one would not consider the latter a democracy worthy of the name. And one where the rule of law governs? In all probability what one finds there is rule by law.
Thank you.
Thomas Hobbs was a very instructive thinker on this subject of absolute goverment. And his argument was basiccaly very simple but it took a complete book Levithan to explain it Hobbs said the implicit bargain the people makes with the state it that the state gives them absolute safety in return they have to abounden all their freedoms and right for ever. The last two years be have been ruled by this principle. That was Hobbs view I hope all in here view this conclution as repellent
Thomas Hobbs was a very instructive thinker on this subject of absolute goverment. And his argument was basiccaly very simple but it took a complete book Levithan to explain it Hobbs said the implicit bargain the people makes with the state it that the state gives them absolute safety in return they have to abounden all their freedoms and right for ever. The last two years be have been ruled by this principle. That was Hobbs view I hope all in here view this conclution as repellent