01 · Knowledge Atlas
Switch to graph viewAn encyclopedia of social systems
Theories, political philosophies, economic models, institution types and forms of self-government — each idea traced through theory, real examples, critique and results.
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- Thomas HobbesThinkerEnglish philosopher whose Leviathan (1651) justified an absolute sovereign through a social-contract argument from the insecurity of a condition without government.
- Thomas PaineThinkerEnglish-born pamphleteer of the American and French revolutions whose Common Sense and Rights of Man attacked hereditary rule and defended written constitutions made by the people, and whose Agrarian Justice proposed a universal capital grant funded from ground-rent.