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Leviathan

By Thomas Hobbes

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Leviathan (1651) is Thomas Hobbes's foundational work of political philosophy, written against the backdrop of the English Civil War. Rather than a novel with plot and characters in the traditional sense, it's a systematic philosophical treatise structured in four parts. Part I: Of Man — Hobbes begins with human nature itself: how perception, imagination, reason, and passions work, building toward a picture of what people are like when left to

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Thomas Hobbes was a 17th-century English philosopher best known for his political treatise 'Leviathan'. His writings on political philosophy greatly influenced later developments in Western political theory.

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