Thomas Hobbes' 'Leviathan' (Part 1/5)

In this episode, I begin my presentation of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" by covering chapters 1-9.

Episode 1: Ch. 1-9
Episode 2: Ch. 10-16
Episode 3: Ch. 17-23
Episode 4: Ch. 24-31
Episode 5: Ch. 32-47

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[art_is_not_the_answer]

It’s great to hear that you’ve healed up! Your absence has reminded me just how much I appreciate what you do.

[akeeperofsheep]

So happy you're back! Love these. Looking forward to the rest of Hobbes.

[Patcazorla]

😢 I am so sorry about your surgery. Thank you for all the amazing work you do!

[aaka]

Gallbladder removal is very common. Glad you’re on the mend.

[OccamsRazor]

Glad you're back! Gall bladder attacks are the worst.

[enlightenedanalysis]

Hope you’re feeling well David. 😊 great to see you back

[samueladams]

glad you are back. hope you are getting better.

[crowboggs]

While I find your naked disdain for Hobbes to be deserved, it somewhat undermines the intensity of influence this guy's thinking had on the Enlightenment. His thinking is formed within a very specific cultural and historical context that shaped his allegiances and political agenda, which required a quasi-transcendent social justification for state oppression to succeed. He becomes part of a tradition that establishes the so-called "social contract" that, in part, serves as a rationalization and justification for hundreds and hundreds of years of ongoing colonial and social oppression, where the word "oppression" stands as a grandiose euphemism. Hobbes wrote a text that has served as an often indirect instrument of unquantifiable suffering. Respecting it in this capacity may help to further dismantle its effect in prolonging this suffering.

[xBogdan]

I hear the audio only in right headphone ear, for some reason.

[mianilsson]

I hope that this video will help me to get some clarity in this chaos during 2 years of war in Ukraine, when humans values are totally upside downs! Are the political jackals of this planet, the right to annihilate citizens of Ukraine in the favour of Russians nuclear power??

[patrickchilvers]

You treat Hobbes too much like a
philosopher, rather than like a political thinker. For example in the comparison to Aristotle there's a suggestion that the world is 'for us'. Aristotle's Politics is incredibly clear on the occurrence of contingency; further if you are going to compare the two it should be on their relative uses of forethought/contemplation. Not your best work...