00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000001376 20200508201437 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0-85229-5316x21 010-0520001376 eng 081.20 081.20/HOB/G Machiavelli Hobbes GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD Ke-5 Chicago Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 ix, 283 hlm Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 21 served the history, philosophy and works of Nicolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, most widely known for his treatises on realist political theory (The Prince) on the one hand and republicanism (Discourses on Livy) on the other. Then, Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy.