The Works of Thomas Hobbes
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This collection gathers together the works by Thomas Hobbes in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!LeviathanA Dialogue Between A Philosopher & A Student Of The Common Laws Of England.Behemoth: The History Of The Causes Of The Civil Wars Of England, And Of The Counsels And Artifices By Which They Were Carried On From The Year 1640 To The Year 1660The Art Of Rhetoric and The Art Of SophistryThe Iliad (As a Translator)The Odyssey (As a Translator)ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.Hobbes was a champion of absolutism for the sovereign but he also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid.He was one of the founders of modern political philosophy. His understanding of humans as being matter and motion, obeying the same physical laws as other matter and motion, remains influential; and his account of human nature as self-interested cooperation, and of political communities as being based upon a "social contract" remains one of the major topics of political philosophy.In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy.