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Thomas Hobbes
English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes is best known for his treatise Leviathan. Written during the mid-17th century amidst the tumult of the English Revolution, Leviathan outlines Hobbes’s theory of sovereignty (political authority).
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Philosophy, Western; Political Science; Hobbes, Thomas; Liberalism; Political Theory
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