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Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get parts 2 and 3 of this reading, as well as our previous and future installments of this new podcast. Covering ch. 5 of Hobbes' 1651 book, famous not only for its political theory but for its hard-nosed, mechanistic Enlightenment-era empiricism. How can such an epistemology explain our ability to reason? The post Closereads: Reason in Hobbes’ “Leviathan” (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.