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Comment: Hobbes as an individualist.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Western Political Thought

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Individualism treats the individual as the ultimate unit of explanation and value, and the state as a means to individual ends. Thomas Hobbes is its first systematic theorist, despite the absolute sovereign of Leviathan (1651). Michael Oakeshott (Introduction to Leviathan, 1946) judged that Hobbes, without himself being a liberal, had in him more of the…

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  • Dimensions of Hobbes's Individualism
  • Rival Readings
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