Passion for Learning S1. E5: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Emma Weinheimer and Joshua Hochschild, Ph.D., talk with Dr. Barrett Turner of the Theology Department at Mount St. Mary's University. Dr. Turner is a moral theologian with expertise in political theology. He guides us through Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, from the perspective of a Catholic tradition that goes through Thomas Aquinas, fellow Dominican Fransisco de Vitoria, and St. Robert Bellarmine, SJ.  Dr. Turner explains that Hobbes's work is not well received by his contemporaries and yet shapes much of modern political theory that follows.