For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

Leviathan

by Hobbes, Thomas (2012)

Key Passage

to avoid the excuse of not finding employment, there ought to be such Lawes, as may encourage all manner of Arts; as Navigation, Agriculture, Fishing, and all manner of Manifacture that requires Labour (p.540)

Keywords

Hobbes, England, History, Political Theory, Early Modern, History Of Ideas, Political History, Welfare

Themes

Hobbes Citations

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