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Given human nature, the variability of human desires, and need for scarce resources to fulfill those desires, the state of nature, as Hobbes calls this anarchic condition, must be a war of all against all. Even when two men are not fighting, there is no guarantee that the other will not try to kill him for his property or just out of an ...
Italiano: Leviathan or, the matter, forme and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiasticall and civill / Thomas Hobbes ; the text edited by A. R. Waller. - Cambridge : at The University Press, 1904. - Cambridge : at The University Press, 1904.
Original – Frontispiece of Leviathan by Abraham Bosse, with input from Hobbes Reason High resolution, clear photographic reproduction of the iconic original cover for Hobbes' Leviathan. It is encylopedic inhow it well llustrates how Hobbes describes the state; an irresistible giant force aided by its bureaucrats that enforces order over society
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Hobbes’s moral philosophy is the fundamental starting point from which his political philosophy is developed. This moral philosophy outlines a general conceptual framework on human nature which is rigorously developed in The Elements of Law, De Cive and Leviathan. [5]
Thomas Hobbes (/ h ɒ b z / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. [4]
Thomas Hobbes, in his seminal work Leviathan, offered the first detailed theory of law as based on sovereign power. As Jean Elizabeth Hampton writes, "law is understood [by Hobbes] to depend on the sovereign's will. No matter what a law's content, no matter how unjust it seems, if it has been commanded by the sovereign, then and only then is it ...
Invoking William Harvey's recent discovery of the circulatory system, Harrington presented the body politic as a dynamic system of political circulation, comparing his ideal bicameral legislature, for example, to the ventricles of the human heart. In contrast to Hobbes, the "head" was once more dependent on the people: the execution of the law ...