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Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a work of social and political theory by the English empiricist philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the chaotic Leviathan sea serpent of the Hebrew Bible and earlier mythologies.
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Advocates the rule of society by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes argued that in the absence of a person society either fears or is in awe of, mankind is always in a warlike condition.
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