Robin’s response to his fears is to attack the Enlightenment and one of its early representatives—Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes, Robin argues, recognised that the theory that the king ruled with ...

9:45 – Here’s the amendment Dunbar changed: “explain the impact of Enlightenment ideas from John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson on ...

The Enlightenment, he suggests, developed through a struggle with the ghosts of two Thomases: Aquinas and Hobbes. It was Thomas Aquinas who had, in the 12th century, created a new foundation for ...