The Political Orphanage
The Political Orphanage
Locke vs. Hobbes vs. Rousseau
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Locke vs. Hobbes vs. Rousseau

John Locke is the nerd at the bar. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is the guy in a leather jacket on a motorcycle. Hobbes is the grizzled cynic. What worldview did these three Social Contract theorists push on modern society, and what were they fighting against? Brian Wilson of the Combat & Classics podcast joins Heaton in an exploration of the tectonic plates of Western Civilization. 

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