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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher whose Leviathan of 1651 is a founding work of modern political thought. Writing during the English Civil War, he argued that without a sovereign power life would be a war of all against all, and that people agree to a social contract giving authority to a ruler to secure peace. He also wrote on geometry, physics and the nature of human beings.
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