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EPISODE · Mar 16, 2010 · 11 MIN

2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury

from General Philosophy

Part 2.2. A brief introduction to Thomas Hobbes, 'The Monster of Malmsbury', his views on a mechanistic universe, his strong ideas on determinism and his pessimistic view of human nature: 'The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'.

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