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Dr. Steven Smith Lectures on Hobbes!

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Dr. Steven Smith Lectures on Hobbes!

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From his Bio on the Yale Website: "Steven Smith received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Yale since 1984 and is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and has been Master of Branford College since 1996. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science, Director of the Special Program in the Humanities, and Acting Chair of Judaic Studies. His research has focused on the history of political philosophy with special attention to the problem of the ancients and moderns, Jewish philosophy, and theories of constitutional democracy."





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Thanks, Camacho.

I converted these lectures into MP3s so I can listen to them on my iPod.
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Ermm. Geo. I notice these videos are over 45 minutes long? A five minute one takes all day to download here., and that is only if the electric stays on. I suppose you couldn't share your mp3 with me?
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I'm converting the videos to 192 kbps MP3s, so they're about 65 MB apiece. I'll post links to them as soon as I can get them up.
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Okayy, here are those lectures in MP3 format.

http://www.wordcentrist.net/hobbes_lecture1.mp3
http://www.wordcentrist.net/hobbes_lecture2.mp3
http://www.wordcentrist.net/hobbes_lecture3.mp3

I've already listened to part of the first lecture and it sounds great. Steven Smith is a very enthusiastic speaker and this seems an excellent way to approach a book like Leviathan. Kudos to Camacho for finding them.
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Yes. that's good. His enthusiasm makes all the difference.
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This is great, thanks to Camacho for finding and geo for converting them to MP3s which will allow me to listen to them at work tonite. Makes the assembly line work go by much more easily, and makes personal productivity compatible with monetary productivity. Thanks to both and Happy New Year.
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