The coronavirus has propelled Thomas Hobbes, one of philosophy’s leading bogeymen ... have already cast the epidemic as the resurgence of Leviathan, Hobbes’s 17th century vision of a mighty state ...

Not liberty but safety has become the overriding imperative. Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), title page for the 1651 edition.De Agostini via Getty Images These new Leviathans differ from ...

On the contrary, it has revealed the true nature of what Thomas Hobbes famously called Leviathan, a biblical sea monster without which “no arts; no letters; no society”. Further, in the ...

Show more "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" is the way Thomas Hobbes described the life of man in a state of nature in his 1651 book The Leviathan. The seventeenth century philosopher ...

Thomas Hobbes, one of the first modern political thinkers, argued in “The Leviathan” (1651) that people need a strong ruler to save them from a “state of nature” where life is “solitary ...