Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

420 pages • hardcover • 1651

23 editions

nonfiction philosophy
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Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war-situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("...

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