It's for me, as a sort of gift from someone else. They know I like books, so they just said throw x ammount usd to amazon account and hit ship as the account is tied to both our cards.
As for leviathan, it's something my brother recommended to me as a secular take on stoicism. As an american who was raised Catholic due to my background the entire conflict between the American ideal of individualism and the heavy classical stoicism leanings of Catholic ideology has always fascinated me. Thus when my brother recommended this to me it rang all the right bells for me, because everything else ive read from the classical stoic philosophers like Seneca or Marcus Aurelius has always been grounded to the idea of some higher power directing the deterministic nature of the world. Leviathan, as my brother sold it to me, is the work of a man who lived through the english civil war and was trying to explain why fighting against the state for slights (real or perceived) was always inherently wrong and would always lead to ruin for the people the state represents because, as this man believed, the state was the functioning apparatus of the people's cumulative existence being applied to reality, and thus the destruction of the head of the figurative body that the state represents will always result in an inevitable slide into destruction for the people (in the cumulative sense) of the state that is being destroyed.
I don't at all believe in such an ideology, obviously as someone who lives in a post-revolutionary state himself, but I find the perspective is a fascinating one to entertain, and if it helps me to better understand my own conflicting philosophies as to the understanding of the world then I think itll be a worthy read.
As to the other books, I like history *shrug*
