Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State

Philosophy Bites - Un podcast de Edmonds and Warburton

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.

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