Visit BN.com to buy new and used textbooks, and check out our award-winning NOOK tablets and eReaders. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. James Madison, in particular, saw how centralized authority could lead to tyranny, which is what made America’s Constitution (which he wrote) so ground-breaking. Since some reviewers here seem to rate this work unfairly low because of their disagreements, ignoring both the importance of Leviathan and the basic power of the argument Hobbes forwards in it, I'll refer a couple of good, measured reviews with history and backdrop also found here-, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, Thomas Hobbes.

Hobbes depicts the natural condition of mankind--known as the state of nature--as inherently violent and awash with fear. Follow this up with James Balko's, "Rise of the Warrior Cop: the militarization of police power" to catch a glimpse of where this philosophy has taken those who find themselves being ruled under these systems of thought carried into action. But, it is good in one respect.

In any case, Leviathan is a well-written and well-researched book that every student of political philosophy should read. Author and Bookstore Owner Emma Straub Returns with 'All Adults Here'. amzn_assoc_design = "enhanced_links"; In it, he makes a compelling case for why centralized power that can enforce the laws that hold together civil society is necessary. This is a classic example of mental circus tricks being used to justify the march of Christian dominance across the globe. Hobbesian pessimism in human nature is a cold bucket of water tempering our enthusiastic assumption of a free polis because it demonstrates how democratic freedom is contingent upon the behavior everyone demonstrates. I’m disappointed in myself for putting it off for so long, I really should have read it earlier.

And for the cause of hearing, that the thing heard, sendeth forth an audible species, that is an audible aspect, or audible being seen; which entering at the ear, maketh hearing.

But their appearance to us is fancy, the same waking, that dreaming.

A beautifully written book about how humanity will always need outside help. The cause of sense, is the external body, or object, which presseth the organ proper to each sense, either immediately, as in the taste and touch; or mediately, as in seeing, hearing, and smelling; which pressure, by the mediation of the nerves, and other strings and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the brain and heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter-pressure, or endeavour of the heart to deliver itself, which endeavour, because outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

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