51: Hobbes and Government
Egg Timer Philosophy
English - June 04, 2021 19:12 - 7 minutes - 6.78 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Under what conditions should people living without a government agree to form a government? On this episode of the egg timer we see the answer that Thomas Hobbes gave nearly four hundred years ago to this long standing question among political philosophers.
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