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Hobbes's Elements of Law was written in 1640, on the eve of the English Civil War. It circulated in manuscript, and eleven manuscripts now survive. Two of them contain a substantial amount of material in Hobbes's own handwriting. Soon after writing it, Hobbes fled to France, while in England civil war broke out over many of the issues discussed by Hobbes in this book. In France he wrote a Latin version of his political theory (De Cive, on the Citizen), and then the English Leviathan, of which a

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Author

Johann P. Sommerville (editor)

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199586257

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Social Science, Philosophy, History

Updated

2026-03-25