Hobbes's Distinctive State of Nature, with Philip Pettit

In this seminar Philip Pettit (Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University; Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University) addresses some of the details and complexities of Thomas Hobbes's distinctive account of the social contract. The seminar is followed by a time of question and answer.

A video version of the seminar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE9PFqtissA&ab_channel=SocialContractResearchNetwork

The seminar took place over Zoom on 20 March 2023, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To find out more about the SCRN, and to subscribe to email updates, please visit https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/social-contract-research-network

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