Learn Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, and LLMs for Free
The Most Addictive Python and SQL Courses
Overview
Google, IBM & Meta Certificates – 40% Off
One Coursera Plus subscription covers most Professional Certificates on Coursera.
Unlock All Certificates
This lecture introduces Thomas Hobbes’s political views, focusing on the tension between absolute sovereignty and fundamental human equality. It examines legitimate authority, the social contract, civil peace, and Hobbes’s account of the state of nature in comparison with Machiavelli and Aristotle.
Syllabus
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Thomas Hobbes
.
- Chapter 2. Who Was Hobbes?
.
- Chapter 3. Comparing Hobbes to Machiavelli and Aristotle
.
- Chapter 4. Hobbes on Art, Science and Politics
.
- Chapter 5. Hobbes' "Great Question": What Makes Legitimate Authority Possible?
.
- Chapter 6. What Makes Hobbes' Story a Plausible Account of "The State of Nature"?
.
Taught by
YaleCourses