Leviathan is the title of a book written in 1651 by the Englishman Thomas Hobbes during the English Civil War and the Thirty Years War, in which Hobbes argued that in the absence of a powerful sovereign the life of the average person was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short".
In this essay, senior contributing editor Prego de Nada challenges the conventional wisdom which says that, because of the enormous power Leviathan can wield, he can be enlisted to do much more than merely protecting the citizens and that the exercise of this power provides a means to create an ideal world.
