Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hobbes, J. C. A. Gaskin, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Publish Date: September 1998, 544 pages
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Its appeal to the twentieth century lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace. Its argument that the state of nature, in which life is 'nasty, brutish and short (and patriarchal), is important, but so too is its systematic analysis of power, and ...Read More (specification)