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Hobbes, Plato, and the Rise of the State

Political Theory 101

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Introduction

Political Theory 101: Hobbes, Plato and the inevitability of the state. The main causes of trouble for Hobbes are subjectivity and scarcity. We're all in separate bodies; we don't pool experience. Someone else's pain or pleasure doesn't count the same to me as my own.

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