- Political science, The State, Early works to 1800, Sciences politiques
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government and society and argues for strong central governance and the rule of an absolute sovereign as the way to avoid civil war and chaos.
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- Author
- Thomas Hobbes
- First published
- 1651
- Pages
- 508
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill, Dover Publications, Rizzoli
- Editions
- 99
- Language
- German, heb, lat, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781551113319
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Thomas Hobbes, in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, remembered today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history, geometry, physics of gases, theology, ethics, general philosophy, and political science. His account of human nature as self-interested cooperation has proved to be an enduring theory in the field of philosophical anthropology. He was one of the main philosophers who founded materialism.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th
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