Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes

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32 Episodio

  1. 00 – Introduction

    Pubblicato: 2/1/2024
  2. 01 – Of Sense

    Pubblicato: 1/1/2024
  3. 02 – Of Imagination

    Pubblicato: 31/12/2023
  4. 03 – Of the Consequence or Train of Imaginations

    Pubblicato: 30/12/2023
  5. 04 – Of Speech

    Pubblicato: 29/12/2023
  6. 05 – Of Reason and Science

    Pubblicato: 28/12/2023
  7. 06 – Of the Interior Beginnings of Voluntary Motions, Commonly Called the Passions; and the Speeches by Which They are Expressed

    Pubblicato: 27/12/2023
  8. 07 – Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse

    Pubblicato: 26/12/2023
  9. 08 – Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and their Contrary Defects

    Pubblicato: 25/12/2023
  10. 09 – Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge

    Pubblicato: 24/12/2023
  11. 10 – Of Power,Worth,Dignity, Honour and Worthiness

    Pubblicato: 23/12/2023
  12. 11 – Of the Difference of Manners

    Pubblicato: 22/12/2023
  13. 12 – Of Religion

    Pubblicato: 21/12/2023
  14. 13 – Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery

    Pubblicato: 20/12/2023
  15. 14 – Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts

    Pubblicato: 19/12/2023
  16. 15 – Of Other Laws of Nature

    Pubblicato: 18/12/2023
  17. 16 – Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated

    Pubblicato: 17/12/2023
  18. 17 – Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth

    Pubblicato: 16/12/2023
  19. 18 – Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution

    Pubblicato: 15/12/2023
  20. 19 – Of the Several Kinds of Commonwealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Sovereign Power

    Pubblicato: 14/12/2023

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Books 1 and 2. Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. The book concerns the structure of society (as represented figuratively by the frontispiece, showing the state giant made up of individuals). In the book, Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by a sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war – situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto bellum omnium contra omnes (”the war of all against all”) – could only be averted by strong central government. He thus denied any right of rebellion toward the social contract. However, Hobbes did discuss the possible dissolution of the State. Since the social contract was made to institute a state that would provide for the “peace and defense” of the people, the contract would become void as soon as the government no longer protected its citizens. By virtue of this fact, man would automatically return to the state of nature until a new contract is made.

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