Who wrote The Leviathan, a 1651 publication about creating moral obligations to live in a civil society?

Thomas Hobbes wrote The Leviathan, published in 1651. In it, he argued that people agree to form a civil society and accept a sovereign’s authority to create order and security. John Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau were also influential political thinkers, but they did not write The Leviathan.

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