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In 1651, when Hobbes’s Leviathan was published in London, the question, whether civil society was composed of independent, free, and equal citizens, was a political question of decisive importance. The reason for this lies in the fact that the victory of Parliament over the King had been attainable only by recognizing people in the parliamentary army as free and independent whose ‘freedom’ and ‘independence’ had to be called into question at the end of the revolution.1
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Freudenthal, G. (1986). The Rise of Civil Society in England. In: Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 88. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4500-5_11
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