Leviathan

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Simon and Schuster, 28 juin 2013 - 417 pages
Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation.

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II
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III
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IV
7
V
9
VI
15
VII
20
VIII
29
XXVIII
191
XXIX
198
XXX
206
XXXI
226
XXXII
241
XXXIII
250
XXXIV
261
XXXV
277

IX
36
X
47
XI
50
XII
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XIII
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XIV
73
XV
80
XVI
92
XVII
97
XVIII
108
XIX
121
XX
127
XXI
129
XXII
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XXIII
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XXIV
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XXV
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XXVI
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XXVII
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XXXVI
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XXXVII
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XXXVIII
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XXXIX
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XL
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XLI
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XLII
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XLIII
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XLIV
365
XLV
368
XLVI
379
XLVII
387
XLVIII
457
XLIX
471
L
473
LI
498
LII
518
LIII
536
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Thomas Hobbes was born in Malmesbury, the son of a wayward country vicar. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and was supported during his long life by the wealthy Cavendish family, the Earls of Devonshire. Traveling widely, he met many of the leading intellectuals of the day, including Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, and Rene Descartes. As a philosopher and political theorist, Hobbes established---along with, but independently of, Descartes---early modern modes of thought in reaction to the scholasticism that characterized the seventeenth century. Because of his ideas, he was constantly in dispute with scientists and theologians, and many of his works were banned. His writings on psychology raised the possibility (later realized) that psychology could become a natural science, but his theory of politics is his most enduring achievement. In brief, his theory states that the problem of establishing order in society requires a sovereign to whom people owe loyalty and who in turn has duties toward his or her subjects. His prose masterpiece Leviathan (1651) is regarded as a major contribution to the theory of the state.

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