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World Service,07 Feb 2002,13 mins

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English materialist philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote 'Leviathan' in 1651 while living in exile after the overthrow of the monarchy in Great Britain. It established the agenda for nearly all subsequent Western political philosophy.

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