"Leviathan, or Matter, the form and power of the state of church and civil" - an essay by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes on the problems of the state. Leviathan is the name of a biblical monster depicted as a force of nature that belittles man. Hobbes uses this image to describe a powerful state ("mortal God")When creating the theory of the emergence of the state, Hobbes starts from the postulate about the natural state of people "War of all against all" (lat. Bellum omnium contra omnes) and develops the idea of ​ ​ "Man to man - wolf" (Homo homini lupus est). People, due to the inevitable extermination while in such a state, for a long time to preserve their lives and general peace, renounce part of their natural rights and, according to a tacitly concluded social contract, give them the one who undertakes to preserve the free use of the remaining rights - the state.