Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbs

LeviathanRepresentative work of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), a political thinker during the British Civil Revolution. Published under the British Revolutionary regime in 1651, Hobbes, who was in exile, returned to this country and was attacked by the royalists as writing for Cromwell. His fundamental argument was to derive the absoluteness of political power from the inviolable natural self-preservation right and to subordinate religion to political power. Part 1 describes human beings, part 2 Commonwealth, part 3 Commonwealth of Christianity, part 4 of the Dark Kingdom, and part 3 and 4 are criticisms of the Church. Human beings are equal from birth, but in the natural state, Manmin is in a state of fighting against all people, and in order to escape from the self-denial of this natural right, it restricts the natural right by the natural law that reason finds itself. By the state.

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Published August 8, 2009