| The Leviathan Contributor(s): Hobbes, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879754451 ISBN-13: 9780879754457 Publisher: Prometheus Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 1988 Annotation: In a brilliant and witty account of both human and nature and the theological preferences of European civilization, Hobbes argues that men can be saved from war only by the artificial device of constructing a state based on sovereign power, laws, constitutions. Click for more in this series: Great Books in Philosophy |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.01 |
| LCCN: 88060150 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470(Not Available) |
| Series: Great Books in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.45" W x 8.6" L (0.54 lbs) 197 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
| Features: Table of Contents |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: England in the middle of the seventeenth century was a quagmire of political posturing from a variety of power centers. Royalists, anti-royalists, the clergy, and sundry other groups were jockeying for the most advantageous positions. With the outbreak of Civil War, England's social and political future looked anything but certain. Amid this turbulence, Thomas Hobbes was to compose one of the most powerful pieces of political philosophy ever penned - his now famous work titled Leviathan. Here he sought to unravel political complexities in order to provide clear and unequivocal answers to the confusion that engulfed England. He sets forth his view of the "passions" that grip human reason - passions that if left unchecked would spell the obliteration of humankind in a war of all against all. To prevent total destruction, reason must prevail, and those in the pre-political state of nature must collectively acknowledge the creation of a civil authority as the only solution if peace is to be achieved and self-preservation assured. |
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