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Leviathan and the Air Pump: Thirty Years On |
The historian of science David Wootton reviews the controversial dispute between Robert Boyle and Thomas Hobbes, followed by a reply from Boyle's biographer Michael Hunter |
Ritchie Robertson, David Wootton, Michael Hunter |
12 May 2015 |
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The Truth about Art 1 - Mystery or Mastery |
E.H. Gombrich famously observed that 'there really is no such thing as Art' (with a capital A). |
Patrick Doorly |
11 Apr 2014 |
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7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom |
Part 7.2. Looks at Hobbes' and Hume's views of free will and the three concepts of freedom, and considers the idea of moral responsibility as dependent on free will. |
Peter Millican |
01 Dec 2010 |
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7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice |
Part 7.1. Explores the problem of free will and the ideas of moral responsibility, determinism and choice; the need for a concept of freedom to allow free choice, the problems associated with this and asking whether we really have freedom of choice. |
Peter Millican |
01 Dec 2010 |
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The Idea of the State: a Genealogy |
Quentin Skinner gives a genealogy of the modern state, arguing that we should not understand the state simply as the government, but rather as a fictional person, enabling us to explain such things as shared responsibility for debt over generations. |
Quentin Skinner |
11 May 2010 |
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Creative Commons |
2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury |
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'. |
Peter Millican |
16 Mar 2010 |
