Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Thomas Hobbes on Mankind and its Insatiable Desire for Power

Philosophy books galore. 

"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

-Thomas Hobbes

David Gordon gives a lecture on Thomas Hobbes. This video was published and distributed by the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Primary Source: Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hobbes

Secondary Source: Hobbes and the Law of Nature by Perez Zagorin

Best Philosophy Books.

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