Leviathan
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Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a work of social and political theory by the English empiricist philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), published in 1651. Its name derives from the chaotic Leviathan sea serpent of the Hebrew Bible and other earlier mythologies.
Subjects: Political science -- Early works to 1800, State, The -- Early works to 1800
Categories: Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750), Category: Philosophy & Ethics, Harvard Classics, Politics