Episode Synopsis "Talking Hobbes and Locke"

The first episode about Liberalism, we discuss the social contract and human nature and how Classical Liberalism extends those principles of freedom to the economy and the role of the state. However, economic liberalism has an overly optimistic outcome whilst being based upon the assumption that people are selfish.

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More episodes of the podcast The Footnotes of Plato: A Philosophy Podcast

• Talking Hume
• Talking Aristotle: Theory of Causation
• Talking Natural Law
• Talking Kantian Ethics
• Talking Utilitarianism
• Talking Rawls
• Talking The Republic
• Talking Divine Command Theory
• Mid-Week Idea: talking The Trolley Problem
• Talking Plato's theory of the Forms
• Mid-Week Idea: talking 1984
• Talking Hobbes and Locke
• Mid-Week Idea: talking Existentialism
• Talking Descartes