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Hobbesian

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Hobbes  (hbz), Thomas 1588-1679.
English philosopher and political theorist best known for his book Leviathan (1651), in which he argues that the only way to secure civil society is through universal submission to the absolute authority of a sovereign.
Hobbesi·an adj.
Hobbesian [ˈhɒbzɪən]
adj
(Philosophy) of or relating to Thomas Hobbes, the English political philosopher (1588-1679)


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Brokering some kind of workable constitutional arrangement among Shi'a, Sunnis and Kurds was never going to be easy, but it is almost guaranteed to fail against a backdrop of relentless Hobbesian mayhem.
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Geraldine Brooks, the Australian writer whose novel, March, won this year's Pulitzer Prize, transports us to a Hobbesian world where life was indeed nasty, brutish, and short--a seventeenth-century English village, besieged by bubonic plague, whose residents quarantine themselves from the world in order to halt the spread of a disease they see as a mark of God's wrath.
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