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Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State
2020
Philosophy Study
In his masterpiece Leviathan (1651), Thomas Hobbes used a series of rhetorical devices in order to persuade the English reader of the truth of his political theories and of his civil science. The first rhetorical device is the engraved frontispiece of the book, where the sword of justice held by the sovereign is also a powerful sword of rhetoric (as shown by the table depicting Rhetoric in a Martianus Capella's manuscript owned by the Duke of Urbino). Moreover, Hobbes employs directly the
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