a book that recently came out called 'Quest for Freedom, An Interview with Quentin Skinner' is really worth reading. I just found it online, and thought I'd share it here:)
If everyone just commented like you, the comment section would be like a repository associated to the video.
@yojaktamang2463 жыл бұрын
great insights.... helped a lot. Thank you
@willchurch2813 Жыл бұрын
This is outstanding.
@owenmcgee84966 жыл бұрын
Very good lecture. I remember being in a UCD class in 1997 in which Skinner was a (guest) chair for a student debate on Hobbes, based on a small segment of Leviathan. I, as a complete novice 20 year old, argued that it was significant that Hobbes said that the (representative) person of the state did not have to be a king, but Skinner replied that I was simply wrong: it most definitely had to be a king. Watching this lecture, I'm still not entirely sure why he said that. But perhaps the close of this lecture is a clue. Skinner is one of the best there is for connecting political philosophies with legal histories but, ultimately, I think his perspective is strictly in keeping with his academic affiliation.
@0Ave06 жыл бұрын
Perhaps, it may be useful to refer to Carl Schmitt: the decision making abilities of the Sovereign is what determines why he/she is representative of the State. From that position, the Sovereign can defend the existence of the State, as they decide on what is an exception. But may be Quentin Skinner may have a different opinion.
@JaguarDevice5 жыл бұрын
It doesn’t have to be a monarch and Quentin Skinner wouldn’t have said that. Read any of Skinner’s work on Hobbes.
@carolynfehr Жыл бұрын
@@JaguarDevice What, were you there? Smh.
@JaguarDevice Жыл бұрын
No, but I studied Hobbes under Skinner and find it hard to believe he said that. Shake your head if you like
@carolynfehr Жыл бұрын
@@JaguarDevice This wouldn't be the world's first instance of conflict. Besides, your doubt comes courtesy of a hypotheticality, while the OP claims a true experience. He gets my vote of confidence.
@JaguarDevice5 жыл бұрын
Marvellous lecture
@pythonplayzz7 Жыл бұрын
love from kerala , we listen a lot in my stat....... so pupular there
@jimmccue80632 жыл бұрын
"So what has become of the sovereign state? It looks as though it has evaporated." For better or worse, it doesn't look that way any longer.
@Kragen-cj2xu8 жыл бұрын
Can I find this lecture in script, somewhere?
@nomos65085 жыл бұрын
@Angelika Karpa thank you!
@pingukutepro3 жыл бұрын
I'm agree with him that whoever said the state is death is premature.
@vlad31922 жыл бұрын
State is dead in libertarian philosophy long ago
@gonx990611 ай бұрын
@@vlad3192and libertarian philosophy is so popular... 😂😂
@firstal37992 жыл бұрын
Hobbies clearly the greatest political philosopher.
@firstal37992 жыл бұрын
Early 20 th century was optimistic of a world govt so perhaps they overreacted on downfall of sovereign. It was an underlying assumption international govt is inevitable.
@thomasshirrefs53316 жыл бұрын
I haven't finished the lecture yet I'll say I don't understand why Skinner won't assimilate more completely European tradition in his talks... Does he think it will resonate more with the states if France, Italy and Switzerland are left aside somewhat? Surely we're all Americans these days? Even they would understand the common origin of our political philosophies?
@jacobzuiderveen60476 жыл бұрын
I think it is to narrow the scope of his inquiry. He mentions but does not delve into the progression of the German idea of the state as it developed the idea of an enlightened dictator. Nor does he mention the evolution of French republicanism and its insistence on universal equality of citizen. He isn't rejecting other notions of the state but only explaining the english language tradition as it uses the term state. He describes the other language traditions in the beginning to describe where the English language tradition comes from. He does a similar thing with his talk on liberty, but it's clear during his talk that he's studied and incorporated other language traditions when he talks about an idea's historical importance to a particular time.
@firstal37992 жыл бұрын
England was where ideas and institutions grew in Europe. Oher euro countries rode its coattails
@landisgallagher4 жыл бұрын
So the state began as a kingdom (with slaves) and ended as a sovereign debt republic (with debtors)
@pingukutepro3 жыл бұрын
you stupid
@joshhennen8 жыл бұрын
meet my best friend, "the state", yes i know its imaginary but it promises to take care of all my problems so of course I love it!
@galek754 жыл бұрын
Bullshit, its as real as country clubs, libraries, and families.
@firstal37992 жыл бұрын
Body language wise professor is clearly uncomfortable talking about multinationals vis a vis developing countries
@miladketabi82019 ай бұрын
Educating and thought provoking. But with multiculturalism, among other factors some of which mentioned in the lecture, “the common good” has itself increasingly become yet another fiction! The fictional state, if my points holds water, whose conceptualisation was meant to legitimise something, itself desperately is in need of justification.
@yodrewyt2 жыл бұрын
It's just like a modern intellectual to begin by denying the possibility of defining the concept he is going to discuss. Now he can put over whatever ideology he wants through his concrete-bound method, while denying having an ideology. As if political science could be non-ideological. Politics is a branch of philosophy. No one can avoid having one as it integrates all our other conceptual knowledge. Which we need in order to live. What a dishonest twat. But, again, that's modern academics for you.
@petergeddes6652 Жыл бұрын
He doesn't deny having an ideology, does he? at the beginning he criticises attempts to formulate the state that claim to be value-neutral
@gonx990611 ай бұрын
He is making a genealogy of the concept dude, did you even pay attention to the lecture?