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Thomas Hobbes
Books by Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
Or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill
Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war-situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("the war of all against all")-could only be averted...