How Brutish Were Our Ancestors?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Origins of Social Inequality
Rousseis: Hobbs didn't actually know how people lived six thousand years o. Particullay, as you point out, they were not empiricists. It was figurative. But rather like what happened with thomas hobbs's earlier treatise on the state the leviathan, modern scholars have seen fit to take them as the foundation for a kind of evolutionary social science. In that case, prefessor, who the hell are we? How do we live before we had these wheels and moba phones and jet aircraft and plowgs?"
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