Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English philosopher, is largely considered as one of just a few historically great political thinkers, whose opus Leviathan matches the political writings of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls in importance. He is well-known for employing the social contract technique to reach the astounding conclusion that we should submit to the authority of an absolute undivided and unlimited sovereign power.
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