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Comment: “Hobbes starts as an individualist but ends as an absolutist”.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Western Political Thought

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The formula is a standard verdict on Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) and names its apparent paradox. Premises built entirely from the individual (equality, natural right, consent) yield a sovereign with unlimited power. The paradox is real in outcome but not in logic. Hobbes's absolutism is derived from his individualism and serves it, yet it leaves…

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  • The Individualist Start
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