Ep. 336 A Libertarian Gallop Through Political Thought
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Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Professor Gerard Casey takes us on a whirlwind tour of political thought, including both the bad guys and the good guys, from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Topics Discussed
- Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, and the notion of sovereignty
- Johannes Althusius: the crucial thinker no one has heard of
- The Levellers and natural rights
- John Locke, self-ownership, and private property
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the “general will”
- and more
Course Discussed
The History of Political Thought, Part II
About the Guest
Gerard Casey is a professor of philosophy at University College, Dublin, and a faculty member at Tom’s Liberty Classroom.
Guest’s Recent Book
Libertarian Anarchy: Against the State
Book Mentioned
Anarchy, State, and Utopia, by Robert Nozick
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.1 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.1 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.7 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.2 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.6 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 336. |
| 0:40.4 | Today we welcome back Gerard Casey. |
| 0:45.8 | Jared Casey is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. |
| 0:52.5 | He's the author of numerous books, most recently Libertarian Anarchy Against the State. And today I wanted to talk to him about the history of political |
| 0:56.2 | thought from a libertarian perspective. We're going to talk about the 16th through the 18th |
| 1:01.9 | centuries if we can go really, really fast. So fast indeed that I'm going to turn things over |
| 1:07.7 | right now to my conversation with Professor Casey. And of course, |
| 1:11.4 | remember the show notes page for today will be tomwoods.com slash 336. Here we go. I always spend a |
| 1:19.2 | little time before talking to somebody going over what I'm going to ask about, what the subject |
| 1:24.9 | matter is, if the person has written a book recently, I make |
| 1:28.4 | sure to read it, all these sorts of things. Well, this time in having you on, I wanted to talk a little |
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