Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes's landmark of political philosophy, arguing that only a strong sovereign can lift humanity out of the violent chaos of the state of nature.

At a glance Forceful and uncompromising, it laid foundations for modern thinking about the state. Written in the shadow of civil war, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan confronts the most basic… His answer, stark and rigorously argued, made the book one of the founding works of… What it's about Hobbes builds his argument from the ground up, beginning with human…

Hobbes builds his argument from the ground up, beginning with human nature and reasoning toward the necessity of the state.