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Leviathan (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Leviathan (Paperback, UK ed.)
Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College,
Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's
Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and
most controversial, works of political philosophy written in
English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare
of the mid-seventeenth century, it proposes a political theory that
combines an unequivocal commitment to natural human liberty with
the conviction that the sovereign power of government must be
exercised absolutely. Leviathan begins from some shockingly
naturalistic starting-points: an analysis of human nature as being
motivated by vain-glory and pride, and a vision of religion as
simply the fear of invisible powers made up by the mind. Yet from
these deliberately unpromising elements, Hobbes constructs with
unparalleled forcefulness an elaborate, systematic, and
comprehensive account of how political society ought to be:
ordered, law-bound, peaceful. In Leviathan, Hobbes presents us with
a portrait of politics which depicts how a state that is made up of
the unified body of all its citizens will be powerful, fruitful,
protective of each of its members, and - above all - free from
internal violence.
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