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Hobbes: Leviathan

Without government, life would be a war of all against all; so people agree to a strong sovereign.

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Volume
21 of the 1990 set
Author
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
Work
Leviathan 1651

Ideas: Kinds of government Power and rulers What a human being is Rights and consent

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