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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

226 pages first pub 1651 (view editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Written during the English Civil War (1642-1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature ("the war of all against all") could only be avoid...

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