Published Date - Tuesday, 10 January 2023. Subjects British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought Format: Paperback Publication date: 27 August 1996 ISBN: 9780521567978 Dimensions (mm): 216 x 138 mm Weight: 0. Leviathan remains central to discussions of political philosophy to this day. Otherwise there is no order and “the war of all against all” will follow. He argues that society needs a state at its organizational heart, in politics, religion, the courts, and education. In the face of England’s radical-if temporary-rejection of its monarchy, Hobbes wanted to explain why it was important to have a strong central government-which in his time meant having a sovereign at its head.Īsking the reader to imagine what society would be like without a state, Hobbes justifies why the people of a nation should pledge their allegiance to a government. Thomas Hobbes wrote the book while exiled from his native England following the English Civil War that unseated King Charles I. First published in 1651, Leviathan drove important discussions about where kings get their authority to rule and what those kings must, in turn, do for their people. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 work, Leviathan, which was an attempt to provide a complete explanation of ’the matter, form and power of a commonwealth‘ as the document’s subtitle explicates (Hobbes, 1651). The political thinker Thomas Hobbes is not a proponent of free speech or freedom of the press.
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