Thomas Hobbes
- Jurist
- Thomas Hobbes
- School
- Social Contract / Legal Positivism precursor
- Theory
- Social Contract Theory; absolute and indivisible sovereignty; state of nature as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"; law as command of the sovereign — early legal positivism.
- Quote
The legislator of all commonwealths is only the sovereign.
- Books
Leviathan (1651), De Cive (1642), The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (1640)
- Propounded
Social Contract; absolute and indivisible sovereignty; state of nature as 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'; law as command of the sovereign (proto-positivism)
- Born
- 1588
- Died
- 1679
- Portrait
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