This book is a joint research effort by the fellows of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of Belgrade to produce a critical understanding of the basic problems of Hobbes’ political philosophy, its values and limits in the historical sense. Man – according to Hobbes – is not by nature a social being and it is completely naive to believe that he possesses a will to associate with other people. As such, man is an extreme egoist, led by the inviolable principle of survival. The state is, thus, not a natural community, but an artificial creation that finds its meaning and justification only as far as it fulfills the existential needs of the individual, and good only to the extent that its internal order emerges from the contracts among the members of the community as such.