Timeline
Lifetime:
1832 -
1904
Passed: ≈
120 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Leslie Stephen
Books by Leslie Stephen
Hobbes
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Contract Theory
State of nature
Leviathan
Absolute Sovereignty
Mortal God
Governing Machine
Thomas Hobbes's "Leviathan" is a classic work of political philosophy that explores the nature of government and the relationship between the individual and the state. Hobbes argues that in the state of nature, life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish...