Thomas Hobbes
1588 – 1679 · United Kingdom · Politics, Philosophy
Leviathan founded the modern theory of sovereignty and the social contract.
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- John Locke
1632 – 1704 · Politics, Philosophy
Locke's Two Treatises rewrites the social contract against Leviathan's absolute sovereign.
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