Leviathan
Or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil
Political science, early works to 1800
Politieke filosofie
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Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government and society and argues for strong central governance and the rule of an absolute sovereign as the wa…
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