This work begins with a conceit comparing its subject to an artificial human being, and notes that only science can offer reliable knowledge of the future since the future is "but a fiction of the mind".  
This work begins with a conceit comparing its subject to an artificial human being, and notes that only science can offer reliable knowledge of the future since the future is "but a fiction of the mind".  A Latin version of this work includes commentary on the story of Cain and Abel.  Expanding on arguments introduced in De Cive, it lays out nineteen laws of nature, the first of which claims that "Every man ought to endeavor peace…and when he cannot obtain it…use all helps and advantages of war".  It further claims that freedom "depends on the silence of the laws".  Saying that life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short", for 10 points, name this major work of Thomas Hobbes.
This work begins with a conceit comparing its subject to an artificial human being, and notes that only science can offer reliable knowledge of the future since the future is "but a fiction of the mind".  
{Leviathan}, or, the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill