On Hobbes - Escaping the War of All Against All

In Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a social contract and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On Hobbes, Alan Ryan explains how Hobbes created the secular conception of the state and politics in one of the first truly modern works of political philosophy. Inverting Aristotle s view of politics, Hobbes argued t... >Voir plus