The superposition of artificial intelligence(AI)and non-state power has aggravated changes in state functions,and has downgraded centralism of political state.The"Intelligent Leviathan"will persist in objectifying the...
Amo Schmidt's tripartite Leviathan(1949;written 1946-1948)is one of the few German narratives composed immediately after World War II.Different from the then newly-propagated Triimmerliteratur(literature among the rui...
William Golding,the Nobel Prize winner,depicts civilization and savagery,democracy and anarchy,reconstruction and destruction vividly in his masterpiece Lord of the Flies.Providing a more cogent interpretation of Lord...
The political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes is one of the cornerstones of modern liberalism. Resting on controversial doctrines of freedom, perception, human nature, and history, the foundations of Hobbesianism presuppo...
The principal thesis of this paper is that one must grasp the importance, or even the centrality, of Hobbes's idea of commonwealth by institution in Leviathan in order to fully understand and appreciate his arguments...
in the chapter 13 of Leviathan,by analyzing human nature,Thomas Hobbes gives out his hypothesis of the Natural state,in which people's lives are guided by law of nature.Without a common power to keep all in awe,the la...