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Thomas Hobbes by Alfred Edward Taylor: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 9 original MP3 tracks, 2:55:20 running time and a link to listen.

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Thomas Hobbes, credited to Alfred Edward Taylor, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Thomas Hobbes by Alfred Edward Taylor. Read in English by Jim Locke This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are found in his famous work Leviathan. Taylor looks at such concepts of Hobbes as the contract, naturalism, sovereignty, natural laws, church and state, absolutism, and political obligation, etc.

Recording facts

  • Recording title: Thomas Hobbes
  • Author credits: Alfred Edward Taylor
  • Language: English
  • Original MP3 tracks: 9
  • Listed recording duration: 2:55:20

Track guide

  1. 00 - Prefatory Note — 1:55
  2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 30:35
  3. 02 - Chapter 2, 1 — 21:00
  4. 03 - Chapter 2, 2 — 21:16
  5. 04 - Chapter 3 — 29:15
  6. 05 - Chapter 4 — 33:53
  7. 06 - Chapter 5 — 22:45
  8. 07 - Chapter 6 — 10:18
  9. 08 - Conclusion — 4:23

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