The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast cover image

Episode 3: Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Social Contract

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

00:00

The Excellence of All Not a Tiger

Dock moore li r sinor unrolls that the excellence of all not a tiger, is to be big and strong and fierce. If you have an especially kind and gentle tiger, that tiger is kind of an inferior tiger to other tigers. Well, maybe what's the excellence of a human being is this self striving quality, is the amount of power within us. And it's exactly that purposefulness that will lead us not just to keep being selfish under whatever circumstances. In other words, even after we joined society, we would then try to out, you know, whenever possible. We would keep stealing. That goes pretty well with a religious point of view. Like if you

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app