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Written during the english civil war 16421651, leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Effort shall be made to look at the relevance of his theory on the contemporary state. Also included are an introduction, explanatory notes, and a chronology. Download thomas hobbess leviathan part ii for your kindle, tablet, ipad, pc or mobile. Influenced by the english civil war, hobbes wrote that chaos or civil warsituations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto bellum omnium contra omnes the war of all against allcould only be averted by strong central government. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social. The saying is nosce teipsum latin for know yourselfread yourself.
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Written in a time of great political turmoil hobbes life spanned the reign of charles i, the civil wars, the commonwealth and the protectorate, and the restoration, leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Selection file type icon file name description size revision time user. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most. Leviathan annotated kindle edition by hobbes, thomas.
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