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Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) was an English philosopher whose Leviathan remains one of the founding texts of modern political thought. Writing in an age of civil war, he asked how society could endure without descending into chaos — and answered with a stark vision of authority, contract, and human nature. Hobbes's prose is forceful and unsettling; his questions about power, fear, and security still shape political debate today.

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