Hobbes’ Leviathan: Analysis of its Impact on the Framing of our Democracy Preface Although I did recently vote in my first election, I would nevertheless not consider myself to be very politically aware. I hardly even know the names of our representatives for North Carolina. Throughout this semester though, a spark, as to the political origins of our nation and what our forefathers dreamed of creating when first writing our constitution, began to grow inside …showed first 75 words of 1679 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1679 total…a civilization. Through reading the text of Leviathan, I began to understand Hobbes’ views of a commonwealth and how this creation we call “Man” must live within it. These insights have encouraged me to start taking greater note of politics, and while doing so, to keep in the back of my mind, Hobbes’ view that “He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind” (83).