Title-page to Hobbes’s Leviathan (London: Andrew Cooke, 1651)
(5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy.
His 1651 book Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory, the origins of creation of an ideal state, and his proper name for the Commonwealth.
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes