Category: Thinkers
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Who Gets to Call Whom Barbarous? Montaigne on Custom and Cruelty
Montaigne on custom, cruelty and cultural judgement: Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson ask who gets to call another society barbarous.
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How Should We Learn to Live and Die? Montaigne on Philosophy and Experience
Explore Montaigne on death, education and everyday experience with Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson in the second Beyond the Text conversation.
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Why Did Montaigne Make Himself His Subject?
Why did Montaigne write about himself? Explore his Essays, changing identity and self-knowledge with Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson.
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When Does Disagreement Become Faction? Hobbes on Political Division
The final episode in our Hobbes trilogy examines disagreement, faction and the forces Hobbes believed could dissolve a commonwealth.
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Why Should We Obey the State? Hobbes on Political Obligation
The second episode in our Hobbes trilogy examines covenant, authorisation, sovereignty and the reasons citizens owe obedience to the state.
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Who Was Thomas Hobbes and What Was He Afraid Of?
The first episode in our Hobbes trilogy explores the life, civil-war context and political fear behind Leviathan.
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Hobbes: Fear, Power and Faction – A Three-Part Beyond the Text Series
A three-part Beyond the Text series exploring Thomas Hobbes on political fear, sovereign authority and the danger of faction.