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Leviathan Parts I and II : Revised Edition, Paperback / softback Book

Leviathan Parts I and II : Revised Edition Paperback / softback

Edited by A. P. Martinich, Brian Battiste

Part of the Broadview Editions series

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Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English.

Beginning with premises that were sometimes controversial, such as that every human action is caused by the agent’s desire for his own good, Hobbes derived shocking conclusions, such as that the civil government enjoys absolute control over its citizens and that the sovereign has the right to determine which religion is to be practiced in a commonwealth.

Hobbes’s contemporaries recognized the power of arguments in Leviathan and many of them wrote responses to it; selections by John Bramhall, Robert Filmer, Edward Hyde, George Lawson, William Lucy, Samuel Pufendorf, and Thomas Tenison are included in this edition. This revised Broadview Edition of Hobbes’s classic work of political philosophy includes the full text of Part I (Of Man), Part II (Of Commonwealth), and the Review and Conclusion.

The appendices, which set the work in its historical context, include a rich selection of contemporary responses to Leviathan.

Also included are an introduction, explanatory notes, and a chronology of Hobbes’s life.

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