Philosophical Rudiments 
Concerning Government and Sociel 

by Thomas Hobbes 



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Philosophical Rudiments Concerning 
Government and Society 

by Thomas Hobbes 

Read by Jeffrey Church. Total running time: 10:39:42 


De Give ("On the citizen") is one of Thonnas Hobbes's nnajor works. 
It anticipates themes of the better-known Leviathan. The famous 
phrase bellum omnium contra omnes ("war of all against all") 
appeared first in De Give. 


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