Leviathanby Thomas Hobbes | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Philosophy" |
| Pages: | 729 |
| Year of Publication: | 1651 |
| Date Read: | 09/09/1994 |
| Notes: | Hobbes argues that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own individual desires and fears. He shows that a conflict of each against every man can only be avoided by the adoption of a compact to enforce peace. The compact involves giving up some of our natural freedom to a sovereign power which will enforce the laws of peace on all citizens. Hobbes also analyzes the subversive forces — religion, ambition, private conscience — that threaten to destroy the body politic, Leviathan itself, and return us to the state of war. |
| My Rating: | 4 |