History of Ideas: Hobbes on the State
TALKING POLITICS
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The Politics of the People
Our states are not either republics or principalities. They are both, which actually means they are neither. And as a result of that, the people are subject to the power and authority of the government in a mutually codependent relationship. That is the story that in part at least begins with Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan.
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