
Episode 3: Hobbes’s Leviathan: The Social Contract
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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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
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