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Deleting the State: Requiem for an Illusion
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What if everything you believe about the state is a lie? Here is a bold challenge to centuries of political orthodoxy…
Life is "nasty, brutish, and short," asserted 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Without the state, he claimed, man is "in that condition which is called War... every man, against every man." His solution? Leviathan: the sovereign power, the guard against chaos.
For centuries, most political philosophers have taken his argument for granted.
But should they?
Is the Ho...
Life is "nasty, brutish, and short," asserted 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Without the state, he claimed, man is "in that condition which is called War... every man, against every man." His solution? Leviathan: the sovereign power, the guard against chaos.
For centuries, most political philosophers have taken his argument for granted.
But should they?
Is the Ho...