Leviathan - Paperback - 9781494240813

In Leviathan, Hobbes set out his doctrine of the foundation of states and legitimate governments - originating social contract theory. Leviathan was written during the English Civil War; much of the book is occupied with demonstrating the necessity of a strong central authority to avoid the evil of discord and civil war. Beginning from a mechanistic understanding of human beings and the passions, Hobbes postulates what life would be like without government, a condition which he calls the state of nature. In that state, each person would have a right, or license, to everything in the world. This, Hobbes argues, would lead to a "war of all against all" (bellum omnium contra omnes).

• | Author: Thomas Hobbes
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Nov 22, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 508 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1494240815
• | ISBN-13: 9781494240813