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LEVIATHAN - THOMAS HOBBES KARTONIERT (TB)

During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe  they are in that
condition which is called WarreWritten during the turmoil of the English Civil War  Leviathan
is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that man's essential
nature is competitive and selfish  Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign or
Leviathan to enforce peace and the law  substituting security for the anarchic freedom he
believed human beings would otherwise experience. This worldview shocked many of Hobbes's
contemporaries  and his work was publicly burnt for sedition and blasphemy when it was first
published. But in his rejection of Aristotle's view of man as a naturally social being  and in
his painstaking analysis of the ways in which society can and should function  Hobbes opened up
a whole new world of political science.Based on the original 1651 text  this edition
incorporates Hobbes's own corrections  while also retaining the original spelling and
punctuation  to read with vividness and clarity. C. B. Macpherson's introduction elucidates one
of the most fascinating works of modern philosophy for the general reader.For more than seventy
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