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The Sovereign State - Hobbes' Leviathan and the State of Nature

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This introductory lecture examines Hobbes’s views on individuality, knowledge, the state of nature, human passions, and the laws of nature as foundations for political authority.

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- Chapter 1. Hobbes on Individuality
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- Chapter 2. Hobbes' Skeptical View of Knowledge
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- Chapter 3. The State of Nature
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- Chapter 4. Pride and Fear: Passions that Dominate Human Nature
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- Chapter 5. The Laws of Nature
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