Thomas Hobbe's Leviathan "And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". Hobbes" famous words in the Leviathan about the condition of mankind in the state of nature reverberate down the centuries, communicating as they do a keen sense of the fragility of ... can only see the political implications and never the personal; the macro-perspective but not the micro. Taken as a whole, Hobbes's Leviathan has two characteristics that stamp it with the mark of brilliant logical training. In the first place, it is a work of great imaginative power, ... sphere of human activity, and...

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