![]() ![]() Because of the political turmoil of the time, namely the unrest leading up to the Civil War of 1642, Hobbes hastily "ripened and plucked" the work which would systematically come last: De Cive. The famous phrase bellum omnium contra omnes ("war of all against all") appeared first in De Cive.ĭe Cive is the first of a trilogy of works written by Hobbes dealing with human knowledge, the other two works in the trilogy being De Corpore ("On the body"), published in 1655 and De Homine ("On man"), published in 1658. It anticipates themes of the better-known Leviathan. The English translation of the work made its first appearance four years later (London 1651) under the title Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1642, followed by two further Latin editions in 1647 from Amsterdam. ![]() De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. ![]()
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