-Titulo Original : Clouds Of Witness A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
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Martino Fine Books
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Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.[6] Written during the English Civil War (1642-1651), it argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature (the war of all against all) could be avoided only by strong, undivided government. The title of Hobbess treatise alludes to the Leviathan mentioned in the Book of Job. In contrast to the simply informative titles usually given to works of early modern political philosophy, such as John Lockes Two Treatises of Government or Hobbess own earlier work The Elements of Law, Hobbes selected a more poetic name for this more provocative treatise. Lexicographers in the early modern period believed that the term leviathan was associated with the Hebrew words lavah, meaning to couple, connect, or join, and thannin, meaning a serpent or dragon. In the Westminster Assemblys annotations on the Bible, the interpreters believed that the creature was named using these root words because by his bignesse he seemes not one single creature, but a coupling of divers together; or because his scales are closed, or straitly compacted together. Samuel Mintz suggests that these connotations lend themselves to Hobbess understanding of political force since both Leviathan and Hobbess sovereign are unities compacted out of separate individuals; they are omnipotent; they cannot be destroyed or divided; they inspire fear in men; they do not make pacts with men; theirs is the dominion of power on pain of death.
-Fabricante :
Martino Fine Books
-Descripcion Original:
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.[6] Written during the English Civil War (1642-1651), it argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature (the war of all against all) could be avoided only by strong, undivided government. The title of Hobbess treatise alludes to the Leviathan mentioned in the Book of Job. In contrast to the simply informative titles usually given to works of early modern political philosophy, such as John Lockes Two Treatises of Government or Hobbess own earlier work The Elements of Law, Hobbes selected a more poetic name for this more provocative treatise. Lexicographers in the early modern period believed that the term leviathan was associated with the Hebrew words lavah, meaning to couple, connect, or join, and thannin, meaning a serpent or dragon. In the Westminster Assemblys annotations on the Bible, the interpreters believed that the creature was named using these root words because by his bignesse he seemes not one single creature, but a coupling of divers together; or because his scales are closed, or straitly compacted together. Samuel Mintz suggests that these connotations lend themselves to Hobbess understanding of political force since both Leviathan and Hobbess sovereign are unities compacted out of separate individuals; they are omnipotent; they cannot be destroyed or divided; they inspire fear in men; they do not make pacts with men; theirs is the dominion of power on pain of death.

