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

Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan, published in 1651. In it, he argued that people need a strong civil authority to escape conflict and maintain social order. John Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau also wrote influential works on government, but they did not write Leviathan.

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