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Hobbes introduced Leviathan by claiming that ‘He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind.’ Furthermore, of the method he adopted for such a reading, he claimed that ‘this kind of doctrine admitteth no other demonstration’ (Hobbes, ‘Introduction’, Leviathan 1991, 11).
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Walker, R.B.J. (2010). Hobbes, Origins, Limits. In: Prokhovnik, R., Slomp, G. (eds) International Political Theory after Hobbes. International Political Theory Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304734_9
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