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  1. 1588-1679. English political philosopher and
  2. the first thinker since Aristotle to attempt
  3. to develop a comprehensive theory of nature,
  4. including human behaviour. In The Leviathan
  5. 1651, he advocates absolutist government as
  6. the only means of ensuring order and
  7. security; he saw this as deriving from the
  8. social contract. He was tutor to the exiled
  9. Prince Charles.
  10.