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Thomas Hobbes was a seventeenth-century English philosopher and political theorist best known for his work Leviathan, which was published in 1651. In Leviathan, Hobbes rigorously argues that civil peace and social unity are best achieved by the establishment of a commonwealth through social contract.

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