Hobbes - founder of modern social thought - tried to explain nature of man and society w/out recourse to assumptions of Greco-Christian tradition - born ... are content for everyone else to retain over them. Mutually transferring of rights Of Commonwealth Ch. XVII Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of Commonwealth - Hobbes concludes that there must be some common power, some sovereign authority, to force people to uphold the contract. This sovereign would be established by the people ... all his actions in like matter - This done, the Multitude so united in one Person, is called a com...

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