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Leviathan

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Thomas Hobbes, author

Canon Rationale

A foundational modern political-philosophy text, included for sovereignty, social contract, fear, natural condition, civil war, state authority, and secular-theological political order.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 28.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Leviathan'.
  • museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes', eBook no. 3207.

Audit Flags

version dependency

Completion unit: read the full work in a specified edition. If a later crash-course path uses a core-part selection, record the exact parts.

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