Thomas Hobbes
Chapter 1 of 9 Prefatory Note
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- Running time
- 2 h 55 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Jim Locke
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About this recording
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are found in his famous work Leviathan. Taylor looks at such concepts of Hobbes as the contract, naturalism, sovereignty, natural laws, church and state, absolutism, and political obligation, etc.