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 ...

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 ...