The rationale for democracy is to be found in game theory, in particular the principal agent framework in the economics of information. Download scientific diagram The frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes 1651 book Leviathan by Parisian artist Abraham Bosse. Actually, democracy is the sole political re- gime that promotes the truth in an open society.

Thus, democracy nourishes an open society seeking the truth. Leviathan rigorously argues that civil peace and social unity are best achieved by the establishment of a commonwealth through social contract. People create a contract by coming together in peace, agreeing to a set of laws, and creating a sovereign. His principle of falsification applies not only to scientific argument but also to social science beliefs and political propaganda. Leviathan Frontispiece, Abraham Bosse, 1651, via Columbia University Hobbes argues that the only way to escape the state of nature is to create a social contract. Only in an open society can hypotheses or models be falsified. we can have no further desire than to taste and try (Hobbes, 1651, 32-33). Political Regime, Information, Open Society, Scientific Discovery, Knowledge Growth, Popper, Principal AgentĪBSTRACT: Karl Popper discovered the link between the open society and scientific dis- covery with the help of his analysis of growth of scientific theories (Popper, 1945, 1959). Keywords: Thomas Hobbes economic thought social engineering Marxism. Published Date - Tuesday, 10 January 2023.Hobbes, T. Leviathan remains central to discussions of political philosophy to this day. His most famous work is Leviathan, a classic of English prose (1651. Otherwise there is no order and “the war of all against all” will follow. and offers a clear, concise statement of Hobbess moral and political philosophy. He argues that society needs a state at its organizational heart, in politics, religion, the courts, and education. People took for themselves all that they could, and human life was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. In the face of England’s radical-if temporary-rejection of its monarchy, Hobbes wanted to explain why it was important to have a strong central government-which in his time meant having a sovereign at its head.Īsking the reader to imagine what society would be like without a state, Hobbes justifies why the people of a nation should pledge their allegiance to a government. The social contract in Hobbes According to Hobbes ( Leviathan, 1651), the state of nature was one in which there were no enforceable criteria of right and wrong. Thomas Hobbes wrote the book while exiled from his native England following the English Civil War that unseated King Charles I. First published in 1651, Leviathan drove important discussions about where kings get their authority to rule and what those kings must, in turn, do for their people.