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i want to welcome everyone back to the piccena show continuing the continental philosophy series

thomas seven seven seven is with us how are you doing today thomas i knew it pretty well. I know, like I said, last episode that it probably seems peculiar to focus as much

on Hobbs and a continental philosophy discussion, but it's essential.

And Hobbs and Machiavelli are the key thinkers of modern political theory in terms of its origins.

I mean, obviously, I privilege Hegel is the most important political theorist to ever live.

But the transition from the classical view of the political to the modern, you've got to understand

Hobbes and Machiavelli, and continental theorists, particularly those from a juristic or

mathematical school, which again, all things encompassing theoretical mathematics

were referred to as geometry in the early modern era. All of those thinkers were in dialogue

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