Thomas Hobbes envisioned the state as a Leviathan mdash;an all-powerful sovereign capable of rescuing humanity from the anarchic ldquo;war of all against all rdquo; by imposing order through a social ...

Trumpism and the Department of Government Efficiency are returning American society to a primitive state of nature.

The ocean liner Leviathan was one of the largest and most popularly recognizable passenger ships on the Atlantic in the 1920s. Like all ocean liners, the ship was at once a complex and powerful ...

His goal was to impress people. 'He called it the Missouri Leviathan - referring to the biblical sea monster - and had some pretty interesting theories about the way it life. Koch believed it was an ...

Anyone acquainted with philosophy might readily observe that this description of the multipolar world accords completely with what Thomas Hobbes in his 1651 book Leviathan termed “the war of all ...

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 ...