Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]
… Image Abraham Bosse, ‘Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes’, Wikimedia Commons, 1651. Abstract Thomas Hobbes’ rejection of the social nature of man is the foundation of his philosophy on the origin of State, and provides a … advanced capacity to live in society, with reason and its manifestation, language, substituting for brute force. Hobbes departed radically from this philosophical tradition in his interpretation of the civil wars that racked England, …
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