3 Great Thinkers Who Inspired and Horrified the Founding Fathers with Dr. Khalil Habib
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
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🗓️ 18 September 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Charlie sits down with professor of political philosophy at Hillsdale College, Dr. Khalil Habib, to explore the great thinkers who both inspired the Founding Fathers, but who also served as cautionary tales, warning them of the many pitfalls in forming a society and a government to run it. Diving into social contract theory, Charlie and Dr. Habib discuss Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (and just a little tease of Niccolò Machiavelli). Can these men trace their ideological DNA to ANTIFA, BLM, and other groups? Are they portrayed by history accurately, or was there much more nuance to their histories and philosophies than what is often taught? This amazing discussion serves as a crash course in Political Philosophy. Find out whey these men were either loved and embraced by America's Founding Fathers (and the men who inspired them), or why they were reviled.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we have Dr. Khalil Habib. |
| 0:04.9 | You guys are going to love this conversation, which is brought to you by Hillsdale College, |
| 0:10.1 | the beacon of the north. |
| 0:11.8 | And for all things Hillsdale, check out Charlie for Hillsdale.com. |
| 0:16.6 | That's Charlie F-O-R Hillsdale.com. |
| 0:19.1 | I just completed my Winston Churchill statesmanship course, |
| 0:22.7 | and it was so interesting taught by Dr. Larry Arne. And, you know, as Aristotle would say, |
| 0:29.9 | people have a desire to know. He said that, I believe in the metaphysics, where he said that |
| 0:35.8 | every human being desires to know more. Well, people |
| 0:38.9 | ask me all the time, they say, Charlie, what can I do to help save the country? Or Charlie, how do I |
| 0:43.6 | properly educate my kid, my grandkid? Well, something that we have been talking about here on the |
| 0:51.0 | Charlie Kirk Show for quite some time is this challenge of you becoming a teacher for one |
| 0:58.3 | hour a week. We are calling this the hour of liberty. Now, maybe you might not be able to homeschool |
| 1:04.4 | your kids, but I guarantee you if you are a mom or a dad or a grandfather or grandmother, |
| 1:09.7 | you could take one hour a week. That's it, |
| 1:11.5 | one hour a week and sit down with your kids and teach them something with all the phones off. |
| 1:17.1 | And I might say, Charlie, I don't know what to teach them. Well, I'm looking right now at the Hillsdale |
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| 1:46.0 | It's Constitution 201, the progressive rejection of the founding and the rise of bureaucratic |
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| 1:58.4 | children and grandchildren, I challenge you to do the Liberty |
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