Leviathan (Annotated)

Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) is a foundational work of political philosophy, arguing that peace and civil order require an undivided sovereign power established by covenant among fearful, rational individuals. Written in a rigorous yet polemical prose, it fuses anthropology, theology, jurisprudence, and statecraft into a single systematic argument. Emerging from the upheavals of the English Ci...