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Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy

Sharon A. Lloyd; Susanne Sreedhar · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · 2022

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EstablishedHobbes published Leviathan in 1651 and argued, using the social-contract method, that people should submit to an absolute and undivided sovereign power because life without government would lack basic security.