HUMAN NATURE

Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The E
lements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is
a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth cen
tury. His analysis of the war between the individual and the group lays out the
essential strands of his moral and political philosophy later made famous in Lev
iathan. This first ever complete paperback edition of Human Nature and De Corpor
e Politico is also supplemented by chapters from Hobbes' later work De Corpore a
nd "The Three Lives," never before published together in English.