Leviathan

“if you look at hobbes leviathan then it's remarkably similar to what yeah the party would say say say in china ”

“line from leviathan before the advent of the state human life was solitary poor nasty brutish and short ”

“clarendon actually accuses hobbes at one point of having written leviathan in order to flatter the delight that the common people have in the word equality ”

“hobbes wrote his towering work of political theory in 1655 it's still provocative he tries to explain how human beings work in very simple terms that has to do with their appetites and aversions ”