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Locke thus traverses the ground Hobbes had covered in his Leviathan though he rejects every premise of the earlier thinker.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Locke thus traverses the ground Hobbes had covered in his Leviathan though he rejects every premise of the earlier…”
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Laski notes that Locke critically engages with Hobbes' ideas while rejecting their foundational premises.
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