Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140431950
ISBN 13
9780140431957
Category
Novel
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Publication Year
1968
Publisher
Description
Leviathan ranks as a classic western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince. 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 avoided by strong undivided government. - from Amzon
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