Leviathan
During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called WarreWritten during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that man's essential nature is competitive and selfish, Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign-or Leviathan-to enforce peace and the law, substituting security for the anarchic freedom he believed human beings would otherwise experience. This worldview shocked many of Hobbes's contemporaries, and his work was publicly burnt for sedition and blasphemy when it was first publish…
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Weitere Autoren: Brooke, Christopher (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-139509-8
- EAN: 9780141395098
- Produktnummer: 19814538
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 688 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.5 cm 480 g
- Gewicht: 480
Über den Autor
Thomas Hobbes (Author) Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher. Born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, he studied at Oxford and spent most of his life employed by the aristocratic Cavendish family. His publications included a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (1629); a comprehensive philosophical system set out in his trilogy, De Corpore (1655), De Homine (1658), and De Cive (1642); and the major statement of his political theory, Leviathan (1651). He died at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire.'Christopher Brooke (External Editor) Christopher Brooke is a lecturer at Cambridge University in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and author of Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (2012).
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