A century after Machiavelli redefined power, another thinker faced a different kind of chaos, civil war.
In this second episode, we enter the mind of one of history’s most profound and unsettling thinkers, Thomas Hobbes, the philosopher who redefined political order in a time of chaos. We explore how Hobbes transformed fear into the foundation of order, reason into the architect of peace, and government into the necessary answer to humanity’s own instability.
Written in 1651, amid the turbulence of England’s Civil War, Leviathan asks a timeless question: What drives human beings to surrender freedom and create government?
Hobbes begins in the state of nature, a world without common power, law or authority, and leads us toward the social contract, the birth of political society and sovereign power.
🎧 In this episode:
• The philosopher forged by England’s Civil War
• The state of nature and the logic of perpetual war
• The right of nature and the laws of reason
• The social contract and creation of the Leviathan state
• The limits of absolute power and Hobbes’s enduring legacy
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