This work also claimed that society allows no right to rebel against the titular figure, and it identified three characteristic features of men, including desire for glory and safety, that make the titular figure necessary.
This work claimed that there is no justification for supernatural rules taking precedence over civil law, and it proposed a test to determine which scriptures should be applied and which should not. This work also claimed that society allows no right to rebel against the titular figure, and it identified three characteristic features of men, including desire for glory and safety, that make the titular figure necessary. FTP, identify this work which called human life "nasty, poor, brutish, and short" and advocates escaping from the state of nature by trading liberty for the protection of the titular ultra-strong ruler, written by Thomas Hobbes.
This work claimed that there is no justification for supernatural rules taking precedence over civil law, and it proposed a test to determine which scriptures should be applied and which should not.
{Leviathan}