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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