Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego – the ego that thinks it exists quite on its own. He did this by declaring, in his Leviathan, that the natural state of human life was one of ceaseless "war of ...

As I have mentioned, Hobbes, in Leviathan, and Ayn Rand share the important central assumption that we live in a "war of all against all", but they differ over what to do about it. Hobbes wants to ...

Zvyagintsev’s film poses uncomfortable questions about the relationship between people and the state as defined by Thomas Hobbes’s 1651 work of the same name. The frontispiece of the book Leviathan by ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION: Up for Air: Leviathan and the Air-Pump a ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. INTRODUCTION: Hobbes’s Conspiracy Against Sovereignty INTRODUCTION: Hobbes’s ...

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. Edited by Noel Malcolm. Oxford University Press; 1,832 pages; $375 and £195. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WHEN Thomas Hobbes was maths tutor to the future English king, ...

The original cover of Hobbes’ Leviathan depicts a Godzilla-sized giant towering over mountains, farms and a 17th-century European city, wearing a crown and holding a sword and scepter. His body is ...

Thomas Hobbes professed the most surprising beliefs about God. God is corporeal he declares. He says this while calmly drawing attention to the first of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of ...

To understand the problem of the legitimacy of government and the obligation of citizens, the thought of Thomas Hobbes offers a particularly interesting perspective. His reflection on the social ...