About the book: 2019 / Thomas Hobbes is an English materialist philosopher who questioned the divine origin of man, challenging medieval scholasticism. For his views, he was repeatedly persecuted by the clergy - after the publication of the treatise “Leviathan”, which proved the priority of the state over the church and likened it to the biblical monster, acting as the earthly embodiment of the omnipotence of God, the philosopher was declared an “atheist”, and he was forced to hide in France .The new book in the “Philosophy on Fingers” series includes not only “Leviathan,” Hobbes’s most famous work, but also the treatise “On the Body,” a detailed exposition of the thinker’s views on the essence of man, as well as the essay “Human Nature,” written in acute political conditions contradictions, where Hobbes sets out to derive from the general principles of knowledge of human nature practical rules according to which people behave in society. All texts are provided with detailed comments and explanations by Natalia Pluzhnikova. The publishing layout is saved in a4.pdf format.