
Episode 3: Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Social Contract
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
00:00
The State of War
There is a moral element to there. There's that idea of might being right, and if you're stronger, you have a kind of excellence that makes you better than others. Butl you don't have to enter into a contract if there was any implicit or inherent superiority amongst somebody for certain traits. And it's certainly plausible to argue the opposite, that it's the strong who and upruling. And the weak are subjective.
Transcript
Play full episode