Thomas Hobbes:

For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the Sovereignty is an Artificial Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body.

— Thomas Hobbes Early Modern

Leviathan, social contract

Context

Leviathan, Introduction

Date / Period

1651

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm#link2H_4_0001

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Explanation

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