Leviathan is no doubt Hobbes's most significant book. ... Leviathan is a monster described in the Bible as so strong that nothing can harm it. ... The main argument of Leviathan is that the sovereign must have great power, like Leviathan, to preserve the peace. ... Hobbes explains it in Leviathan as: "And for that cause, in buying, and selling, and other acts of contract, a promise is equivalent to a covenant, and therefore obligatory." ... Despite his contradictions, Hobbes was an important philosopher who had a great impact on his own time and his book Leviathan is certainly worth to re...

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Compare and Contrast Hobbes" and Locke's State's of Nature Thomas Hobbes lived in seventeenth century England. ... In the Leviathan, Hobbes attempts to explain the nature of power. ... (Hobbes, The Leviathan) Fortunately man is endowed with reason which in turn enables him to recognize his problem and ultimately discover a solution to said problem. ... In my opinion, Hobbes" state of nature is an anarchical one. ... Like Hobbes, Locke believed that all men are born free and equal. ...

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Thomas Hobbes, the famous author of "Leviathan", (1651), was a theorist on the law, the state of nature and the concept of social contract, and as such, one of the founders of modern political philosophy. ... In fact, several great philosophers and authors rose to say that Hobbes and  Rousseau are not the philosophers that they pretended to be. ... Hobbes witnessed civil wars in England and in France, the Cromwell Dictature, and the killing of Charles I. ... Furthermore, when Hobbes talks about the designation of a sovereign, we can also give an other interpretation. ... Additi...

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Dave Ricker Why does Hobbes think that sovereignty needs to be absolute and perpetual? ... Hobbes's view of the man's place in the natural world is famously described in Chapter 13 of Leviathan; " .continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."" ... In short, man in nature was in a perpetual state of war thought Hobbes. ... Locke clearly delineates the bounds between a state of nature and the state of war, a difference that Hobbes denies; Hobbes felt the two were one and the same. One can even sense that Locke is a...

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