Hobbes: Apostle of Leviathan (Hobbes, Pt. 1)

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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Dr. Jonathan Barth received his PhD in history from George Mason University in 2014. He specializes in the history of money and banking in the early modern period, with corollary interests in early modern politics, empire, culture, and ideas. Barth is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University.
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