POLITICAL THEORY - Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes believed that it is always better to have security rather than liberty in a country. He was therefore deeply opposed to the English Civil War – and would have predicted the chaos of the Arab Spring.

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[misszinem]

I love the narrator's English. It's wonderful. Absolutely listenable.

[TheCoffeeNut]

After the age of 60? You hear that Mom? I'm not a failure at 23!

[GrumpyOldMan]

1:39 The Devine Righ of Kings
2:17 The Social Contract
3:23 Leviathan (Hobbes' book)
3:39 The State Of Nature
4:18 Governments
4:41 The Leviathan

[AsemKhanfar]

“Hobbes is an atheist”
Hobbes: I’m not an atheist.
School of Life: Hobbes was privately an atheist.

[TheAnarchoAtheist]

Actually, Hobbes himself said that life in the State of Nature was "nasty, BRITISH, and short."

[arvj]

I love that Thomas Hobbes is blinking naturally. The attention to detail is superb!

[peroz]

Please do videos about sociologists: Comte, Spencer, Spengler, Pareto, Sorel...Also, it would be interesting to start exploring in more depth the main ideas of those philosophers already tackled, one video each : the Ubermensch, alienation, the Logos, the Theory of Ideas, and many more!

[ericad]

I want to work for these guys so badly. It would be wonderful to get paid to provide knowledge and philosophy to a modern generation as well as explore historical topics in a new light.

[justtrollinaround]

Saved my ass! The Leviathan is harsh read and having someone portray a structured overview of Hobbes helped organize my own thoughts! Thank you!

[ericpa]

I prefer the words of Benjamin Franklin:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"

[murmurrrr]

No one knows if Hobbes was an athiest, it's just speculated that he might have been.

[eduardomalheiro]

Could The School of Life make a video about John Locke? I believe he is very important to the Political Theory playlist. I love you channel, thank you!

[be]

Imagine having to watch every video on this channel because your professor is a boomer who can’t figure out canvas

[bonitaroache]

I can't even fathom how from the entire video, that was very enlightening I must say persons were only able to highlight when you said that Hobbes was privately an atheist. Cmon people

[Rohilla]

From my reading of Leviathan I never got the impression that Hobbes was an atheist.

He was certainly unorthodox and maybe even heretical but he seems to have believed in a providential supreme Deity.

[digestivedunker]

Old English spelling is... certainly something...

[CegeRoles]

While Hobbes advocation of an Absolute Sovereign is somewhat questionable, his understanding of human nature is far more realistic than Locke or Rousseau. Taken as a whole, human beings are extremely short-sighted, self-centered and irrational to the point of being self-destructive. In the absence of law or any form of social order, we would happily trample over the bodies of our friends and neighbors if it meant our continued survival.

[anzus]

Could The School of Life make a video on Rudolf Rocker, Kropotkin or some other anarchist theorist? It would be interesting to see an informative video on some of the great men and women behind this most influential movement, which caused an uprise of anarchist societies especially in Europe in the early 1900s, and that has had a great role in the democratization of modern societies.

[Gguy]

I have a feeling anarchists and libertarians are gonna invade the comments of this video. Because you know, if someone makes an argument against something, that means they're right. I encourage everyone to remember this quote:"There are no solutions. Only trade offs."

[gtabigfan]

I think N.Machiavelli also said that, in his work "The Prince", if you revolt against your ruler, things will get worse and worse. BTW Great video as always.