Leviathan - THE MATTER, FORME, & POWER OF A COMMON-WEALTH ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVILL: The 100 best nonfiction books

REVIEWS of LEVIATHAN By Thomas Hobbes The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 - Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)Thomas Hobbes's essay on the social contract is both a founding text of western thought and a masterpiece of wit and imaginationAccording to the 17th-century historian and gossip John Aubrey, Thomas Hobbes "e,was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men."e, As a great thinker, Hobbes epitomises English common sense and the ...