Philosophy
Who Gets to Rule
An argument about why anybody should obey anybody
Hobbes · Locke · Rousseau · Nozick · 4 chapters · 11 min read
An argument about why anybody should obey anybody, made before the revolutions it caused.
Free to read: every chapter below is open
The contract, and its critics
- 01Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and ShortOn a book written during a civil war, and the first modern argument for the state.
- 02Consent, Property and the Right to LeaveOn a milder state of nature, and the sentence that governments have never liked.
- 03Born Free, and Everywhere in ChainsOn the most famous opening line in political philosophy, and the strangest idea behind it.
- 04The Reply to RawlsOn the reply to Rawls, and why its weakest point is its first step.