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Leviathan

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Leviathan

By Thomas Hobbes

3 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political phil...Show more

Ancient, classical and medieval texts
Philosophy

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ISBN

9780141395098

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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Leviathan

Format

Paperback

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