Thomas Hobbes: Apostle of Leviathan (Hobbes, Pt. 1)
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- New section of the lecture series, Foundations of Western Political Thought -- this time on Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and political thinker of the seventeenth century. Hobbes is most famous for his 1651 book Leviathan, where he explains the origins of the state. In a state of nature, people exist in a war of all against all; to escape that barbaric state, they agree to a mutual covenant, or social contract, resulting in the establishment of the Sovereign authority: an authority whose sovereignty is absolute and must not therefore be resisted.
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Underrated channel. Keep grinding professor B, your channel will grow!
lex fridman just dropped an episode covering this, you were ahead of the curve.. thanks for the great content.
Thanks for another great lecture.
You bet
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Levithian means „above single interests“
Please help those who want to learn by putting all your lectures on you tube.
I love to learn as a senior but unfortunately my university of Washington, close to my house has become intoxicated with irrational “wokeness” and I stopped auditing courses there.
Hi there, thanks for watching, and glad you're interested in learning more and watching lectures! If you click on my channel, I have over 100 various lectures, namely for my course "History of Money". Last year I began a lecture series called "Foundations of Western Political Thought". Click here for the playlist, including the videos for the lectures on Thucydides and Machiavelli: th-cam.com/play/PLinliDgP9EbRu4qZn8SJFgysSQB5I4c-L.html
Oops thanks I went through your money series -absolutely great. Didn’t realize there were part 1&2 there.
Thank you for this lecture. I have a few questions, though. What would Hobbes say of a warlord who came to power without the consent of the governed? Or if a sovereign loses the consent of the governed? What should be done in those situations?
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Every summer I take it all off; this summer I decided to leave the mustache
It's interesting to me people would call him a cynic because this all sounds very idealistic to me
Yes I think you raise a good point when it comes to his conception of social contract and especially the idea that all people within the Commonwealth are somehow authors of everything done by the Sovereign. The cynical charge mostly lies in his description of man in the state of nature: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Like Machiavelli, Hobbes attempts to simply describe the reality or facts of the matter, whether we like it or not. Also like Machiavelli, morality has little significance in the discussion.
@ProfessorBarth oof! Thanks for pointing that out tbh
Yo pro.to bolster your thoughts or not...i go back to moses and his father in law...jethro..moses is like getting sick of leading his people thru the wilderness and being chastized by all..moses needed higher standards for whatever..he then was the end all..maybe there was other examples