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Thomas Hobbes was an English political philosopher who lived from 1588 to 1679. He believed that without laws and a powerful sovereign to enforce them, human life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" in a state of constant war. Hobbes argued that individuals in a state of nature would form a social contract and agree to give up freedoms for protection by a sovereign authority, such as a powerful monarch. His work Leviathan described the need for this strong centralized authority to maintain
- Author
- Arvi Cruz
- Language
- EN