Berfrois

Leviathan

‘After all, everyone wants to go on living – or so Hobbes wanted to believe’

‘After all, everyone wants to go on living – or so Hobbes wanted to believe’

‘Out of this miserable slaughter our modern notions of the state were born, and Hobbes was their midwife…’

(Read ‘Leviathan’ by Thomas Hobbes)

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