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226 pages • first pub 1651 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781950330058
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications
Publication date: 12 February 2019
Description
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 avoid...
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226 pages • first pub 1651 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781950330058
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications
Publication date: 12 February 2019
Description
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 avoid...