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Back to EpisodesWho was Thomas Hobbes and what was he afraid of?
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The first of three Beyond the Text conversations on Thomas Hobbes. Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson begin with Hobbes’s life, the political upheaval around him, and the place of fear in his account of human beings. How did those experiences shape the argument for political authority?
Read alongside us:
John Aubrey, “Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury,” Brief Lives, vol. 1: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47787/47787-h/47787-h.htm
Thomas Hobbes, De Cive, Author’s Preface: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Philosophicall_Rudiments_Concerning_Government_and_Society/Authors_Preface
Beyond the Text: https://beyondthetext.co.uk/