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Hobbes, Plato, and the Rise of the State

Political Theory 101

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Trying to Find Ways of Doing Politics That Don't Concentrate Power

Trying to find ways of doing politics that don't necessarily concentrate power in the few people that Hobbes and Plato thought should hold power. And pretty soon in either the next episode or the episode after we're hoping to talk about people like Aristotle. And then a lot later Benjamin Constant who Aristotle with mixed with aristocracy's own constant with democracies or proto democratic states. Yeah, well, sometimes thinking very much about the circumstances that led Plato and Hobbes to decide that that was necessary.

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