For 10 points, name this book that characterizes life in the state of nature as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" and argues for the necessity of an absolute sovereign, written by Thomas Hobbes.
This work distinguishes the unguided type from the regulated type of coherent successions of thought, which its author terms "trains of thoughts". This work conflates imagination and memory as "decaying sense," and describes two branches of fundamental law of nature: "to seek peace, and follow it" and "by all means we can, to defend ourselves". The frontispiece of this text features a crowned figure holding a sword and scepter whose torso is composed of hundreds of people, and it discusses the prevalence of ignorance and a "confederacy of deceivers" in the section "Of the Kingdom of Darkness." For 10 points, name this book that characterizes life in the state of nature as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" and argues for the necessity of an absolute sovereign, written by Thomas Hobbes.
This work distinguishes the unguided type from the regulated type of coherent successions of thought, which its author terms "trains of thoughts".
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil