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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

The most unflinching analysis of why humans need government ever written.

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And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Thomas Hobbes

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The most unflinching analysis of why humans need government ever written. Hobbes' state of nature — "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" — is the starting point of all serious political philosophy.

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Hobbes' argument for a powerful sovereign to prevent the war of all against all. The founding text of social contract theory.

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The most unflinching analysis of why humans need government ever written. Hobbes' state of nature — "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" — is the starting point of all serious political philosophy.

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Hobbes' argument for a powerful sovereign to prevent the war of all against all. The founding text of social contract theory.

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