One section in this work states that human action is based on the "passions," while another divides justice into "commutative" and "distributive" types. This work asserts that imagination is "nothing but decaying sense" and posits that a strong central government is needed to prevent disorder, which the author defined with the motto bellum omnium contra omnes. Containing sections titled "Of Man" a
One section in this work states that human action is based on the "passions," while another divides justice into "commutative" and "distributive" types. This work asserts that imagination is "nothing but decaying sense" and posits that a strong central government is needed to prevent disorder, which the author defined with the motto bellum omnium contra omnes. Containing sections titled "Of Man" and "Of Commonwealth," it states that life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." For 10 points, name this work that favors an absolute monarchy, a work by Thomas Hobbes.
One section in this work states that human action is based on the "passions," while another divides justice into "commutative" and "distributive" types.
{Leviathan} or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil