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Leviathan (English Library) Book

The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But the resurgence of interest in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. This book intends to see politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry. It argues from first principles to human nature to politics.Read More

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  • BookDepository

    Leviathan : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140431957 : 0140431950 : 01 Jun 1982 : Claiming that man's essential nature is competitive and selfish, the author formulates the case for a powerful sovereign or 'Leviathan' to enforce peace and the law, substituting security for the 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short' life he believed human beings would otherwise experience.

  • Penguin

    'During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre' Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy.

  • Blackwell

    Its appeal to the twentieth century lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace. Its argument that the state of nature, in which life is 'nasty, brutish and short (and patriarchal)...

  • Pickabook

    Thomas Hobbes, C.B. Macpherson (Editor)

  • 0140431950
  • 9780140431957
  • Thomas Hobbes, C.B. Mac Pherson
  • 1 July 2002
  • Longman
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 736
  • 1
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