“Leviatán” (Leviathan) byThomas Hobbes(++): published in 1651 (during the English civil war), the book portrays the republic as a mortal God (Leviathan) needed for the defence of the individual. The book discusses different types of government (with monarchy as the preferred one for the ...
Thomas Hobbes, Human Nature (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1994 [1640]), XIX.7; De Cive (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 1998 [1641]) V.7; Leviathan, Introduction. Google Scholar Falk offers a significantly more detailed list consisting of 12 items. Richard A. Falk, “...
Bunyan's spiritual autobiography and whatever it was thatSir Thomas Brownewrote. It might even at a pinch be taken to encompassHobbes's Leviathan orClarendon's History of the Rebellion.French seventeenth-century literaturecontains, along with Corneille and Racine, La Rochefoucauld's maxims, Bossuet'...
Presents a reply regarding the theory of persons and state of philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Accounts on the theory of state in the book 'English Leviathan'; Distinction between persons and nonpersons; Representation of a person by fiction; Complications of the concept of state.Runciman...
In 1651, political philosopher Thomas Hobbes published "Leviathan," a book developing social contract theory, a concept that the behavior of people in a society is bound by unspoken agreement. Social contracts rely on political obligation, a moral responsibility to obey a government's laws and par...
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Thomas Hobbes wroteThe Leviathanin 1651, during theEnglish Civil War, and in it, he laid out the first basis of popular sovereignty. According to his theory, human beings were selfish and if left alone, in what he called a "state of nature," human life would be "nasty, brutish, and s...
The earliest arguments in favor of absolute monarchy were expressed by English political philosopherThomas Hobbes, who in his seminal 1651 book Leviathan, asserted that absolute universal obedience to a single ruler was necessary to maintain civil order and security. In practice, the main advantages ...
Man's desire knows no bounds. Man will never and can never be satisfied. Man's existence is defined by his greed. Man is in essence a greedy being. This is the view of the sixteenth century thinker Thomas Hobbes as laid out in his seminal work The Leviathan. This paper will argue ...