Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) on the Rights and Duties of An Astute Administrator

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2016

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Spectrum Books Limited

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Thomas Hobbes articulated the rights and duties of any legitimate administrator in a civil society. He described it as the rights of the sovereign. Using historical, critical, and analytic methods, the chapter highlights the essential rights of an administrator or the sovereign without which the covenant or the office would be empty. The chapter talks about the philosopher Hobbes, Rights, Law and Society including Hobbesan will-to-live and then conclusion.

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It is a chapter in the Book: Dynamics of Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences in Honour of Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede and edited by Y.O Imam, R.I.Adebayo and A.I.Ali-Agan.

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Rights, Duties, Administrator

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