jan 1, 1651 - "Levithan" by Thomas Hobbes
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- work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory
- civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature could only be avoided by strong, undivided government
- he calls/ describes human existence in the state of nature as ‘the war of all against all’
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