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Thomas Hobbes: the Long Reach of the Leviathan

Posted on March 2, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Thomas Hobbes was exposed up close to the terror of the bloody English Civil Wars (1642-1651). As a result fear and self-preservation are the primary “passions” in his political framework… More>>

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