Quentin Skinner - Thomas Hobbes: Picturing The State

Thomas Hobbes was exceptionally interested in the visual representation of philosophical ideas. His two major works of political theory - his De cive of 1642 and his Leviathan of 1651 - both contain elaborate engraved frontispieces that summarise his arguments. The lecture traces the visual sources of these two images and illustrates the development of Hobbes’s ideas by comparing them. With his Leviathan frontispiece, Hobbes finally attempts to picture his distinctive conception of the state both as a fictional person and as a mortal god.

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On 36:00 this is not the Iliad but Thucydides Peloponnesian war

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No, not just. Professor Skinner, the triangle is the sign of stability and masonry.

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