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Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State
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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Oct 15, 2007
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Podcast episode
Description
What is the state? How do individuals combine to lend legitimate authority to those who act on the state's behalf? These are fundamental questions in political philosophy that Thomas Hobbes addressed in the seventeenth century. In this interview Quentin Skinner gives a fascinating account of Hobbes' ideas about the state.
Released:
Oct 15, 2007
Format:
Podcast episode
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