What i need to read before i start with this?

What i need to read before i start with this?

Its unorthodox but I'd actually say read The Social Contract first since it's much easier and provides an entry level amount of knowledge about the concept.

Aside from that some history of the Civil War is probably a good idea, so you know where Hobbes is coming from historically and politically.

Thank you user, i read Locke's two treatises of goverment before trying to read this one, so i have a minimal notion of what hobbes talk in Leviathan, but i will consider reading Rousseau frist too.

Im in chapter 4 or so, and i feel like i dont have enough knowledge to understand completely what is talking about regarding to lenguage ,thought and logic, i suppose he was referencing the greeks, but i don't know where to start with those. Plato's republic and Aristotle are a must to understand hobbes?

Who's civil war? This book preceded the US civil war by 200+ years.

who is civil war indeed

I'd take my faux pas over yours any day.

is this a bait

op here, im not this guy .

>Being so insecure that you need to confirm that you aren't another user.
Wow.

not because im insecure , but these threads go to shit after troll messages like that. And im interested in getting some serious replies honestly.

Not much, especially if you read only the Leviathan.

All you need is a good critical edition of Leviathan.

Supra's correct, op. Hobbes a remarkably clear writer.

are you unfamiliar with philosophy? Hobbes is responding to medieval scholasticism and their ancient antecedents in the first book. if you're mainly interested in politics, you can safely read just the second book and skip the rest.

>Hobbes

literally nothing. Watch the intro video by Dr. Sadler if you want, or read the SEP entry. I'd imagine any Leviathan would have a solid enough intro nowadays. The penguin edition has an intro interpreting it through a marxist lens (trigger warning)

>The penguin edition has an intro interpreting it through a marxist lens

How is this allowed?

because Marx was a really smart analyst of power just as Hobbes. Try not conflating Marx and his ridiculous cult

>Marx was a really smart analyst of power

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Why'd you post Jim Carrey, friend?

>reading the introductions

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>reading the books

Number of people who appreciate Sam Hyde's comedy: under a million

Number of people who Marx's ideology influenced: most of eurasia and a great deal of the western world

>Appeal to Popularity

I am yeah, im mostly interested in political philosophy but im still interested in the other fields too. Which are those ancient antecedents?

I would start with the Greeks tbqh op