In Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of
all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a
social contract and set out to explicate a doctrine for the
foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On
Hobbes, Alan Ryan explains how Hobbes created the secular
conception of the state and politics in one of the first truly
modern works of political philosophy. Inverting Aristotle s view of
politics, Hobbes argued that humans organize themselves into
political communities not out of any sociable impulse to pursue the
good life in common, but rather out of an unsociable fear of one
another and for the sake of avoiding the greatest evil of all:
death. Ryan explicates how modern notions of individual rights,
sovereignty, representative government, and almost all liberal
political theory find their foundation in the work of Hobbes.
Excerpted here are: Leviathan, The Elements of Law."
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