I enjoyed listening to this. It helped me understand Hobbes more! Thank you so much. Please where’s the link to the video of John Locke’s Second Treatise.
Thank you for the two videos discussing ch13-19. It was very informative and really helped me to understand what Hobbes was saying. It's also allowed me to generally understand Hobbes much better, not just in these chapters. I'd like to add something to the question at 50:0. I think a better way to phrase it would be if the sovereign invades a country, and takes it over, does the sovereign now have the authority of the people of that country, even though they never agree to him as their sovereign. The Leviathan is the first type of philosophy book I've read, so there may be better arguments or views, and the one I'm about to make may not be the one that Hobbes would make. However, I would say that when a country is annexed by another sovereign, the original sovereign has failed in his duty to protect and provide peace. (Could this be the one case where the 2nd right, the sovereign can't break the covenant, does not follow?) The country would be absorbed into the common wealth, and the authority that they had given to their original sovereign, now transfers to the conquering sovereign. He has shown himself to be a stronger and more powerful sovereign, and, without some international law, international politics is much like the State of Nature, the new sovereign is perfectly allowed (Not just or unjust) to take the authority the original had. There is probably some problems with that, but hopefully it sounds somewhat reasonable. Thank you again for the great videos.
Thank you for posting your lessons! Really helped me out in understanding Hobbs and his texts.
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I enjoyed listening to this. It helped me understand Hobbes more! Thank you so much. Please where’s the link to the video of John Locke’s Second Treatise.
Thank you for the two videos discussing ch13-19. It was very informative and really helped me to understand what Hobbes was saying. It's also allowed me to generally understand Hobbes much better, not just in these chapters.
I'd like to add something to the question at 50:0. I think a better way to phrase it would be if the sovereign invades a country, and takes it over, does the sovereign now have the authority of the people of that country, even though they never agree to him as their sovereign.
The Leviathan is the first type of philosophy book I've read, so there may be better arguments or views, and the one I'm about to make may not be the one that Hobbes would make. However, I would say that when a country is annexed by another sovereign, the original sovereign has failed in his duty to protect and provide peace. (Could this be the one case where the 2nd right, the sovereign can't break the covenant, does not follow?) The country would be absorbed into the common wealth, and the authority that they had given to their original sovereign, now transfers to the conquering sovereign. He has shown himself to be a stronger and more powerful sovereign, and, without some international law, international politics is much like the State of Nature, the new sovereign is perfectly allowed (Not just or unjust) to take the authority the original had.
There is probably some problems with that, but hopefully it sounds somewhat reasonable.
Thank you again for the great videos.