Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
Red Menace
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Liberal Political Philosophy
i think that, at least the way that man and wainwright outlined the concept of leviathan, they seem to think that it would take that dictatorial form. But i think they're very open to the idea that it would not necessarily be like a dictatorial stable, a kind of leviathans. And it's also worth maybe mentioning really quickly a sort of an interesting point of the state of and social contract theory. These are like, sort of cores fundamental concepts and liberal political philosophy. Both of those stories, and stories like them, in liberal political philosophy, start from a point of abstraction. They start from a mythological starting point to make sense of the rest
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