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1. www.britannica.com › topic › Leviathan-by-HobbesLeviathan | Thomas Hobbes, Summary, Social Contract ...

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   May 17, 2024 · Leviathan, magnum opus of the early-modern English political philosopher, ethicist, metaphysician, and scientist Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679).

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3. learn.saylor.org › mod › bookThomas Hobbes' Leviathan: Chapters 17-18 - Saylor Academy

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   6 days ago · Read Chapters 17 and 18 from Hobbes' Leviathan. Hobbes describes the civil society and common wealth that results when people form a social contract with their government. Individuals in this relationship with their government give up some of their rights to the sovereign, or to the great leviathan made up of the citizens as a whole.

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   May 23, 2024 · The exploration of the social contract from Thomas Hobbes to Jean-Jacques Rousseau reveals a fascinating evolution in the way we understand government and individual rights.

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   1 day ago · Hobbes Locke Thomas Hobbes wrote a book titled Leviathan in which he discussed his ideas. He was persuaded that all people were self-centered and evil by the atrocities of the English Civil War, so his views expressed traits of a cynical philosophy and that there are no true noble people, because of the greedy nature humans can possess, and the hunger for chaos.

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   May 30, 2024 · Read Chapters 13, 14, and 15 from Hobbes' Leviathan. He describes what people are like in the absence of authority, especially government authority. Hobbes finds that life before a social contract is inherently negative but that people will tend to seek social contracts and peace.

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   5 days ago · With the stroke of his pen in “Leviathan,” published in 1651, Hobbes wove a tapestry of ideas that continue to shape the fabric of modern political discourse. His insights into human nature, the social contract, and the authority of the sovereign reverberate through the corridors of power, leaving an indelible mark on the way we think about ...

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   Did Thomas Hobbes write Leviathan?

   • Frontispiece engraving of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes by Abraham Bosse, 1650. (Wikimedia Commons) John Rawls said in his lectures on Hobbes that, “in [his] own view and that of many others, Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest single work of political thought in the English language.”

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   What does Hobbes reject in De Cive & Leviathan?

   • In De Cive and Leviathan, Hobbes rejects one of the most famous theses of the politics of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 bce ), namely that human beings are naturally suited to life in a polis (city-state) and do not fully realize their natures until they exercise the role of citizen.

   Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes, Summary, Social Contract, Sovereign

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   Why does Hobbes say human beings are unsuited to political life?

   • Hobbes turns Aristotle’s claim on its head: human beings, he insists, are by nature unsuited to political life. They naturally denigrate and compete with each other, are very easily swayed by the rhetoric of ambitious persons, and think much more highly of themselves than of other people.

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9. www.journals.uchicago.edu › doi › absThe Hunting of Leviathan: Seventeenth-Century Reaction to the ...

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   May 14, 2024 · The Hunting of Leviathan: Seventeenth-Century Reaction to the Materialism and Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Samuel I. Mintz . Thornton Anderson