It suggests that a social contract to obey an absolute authority represented by the titular entity is necessary to avoid the war of all against all.
According to this book, the conservation of motion is the cause of human thoughts. Stating that imagination is at the start of all voluntary actions, it sets forth the premise of a mechanistic universe. The author denies the existence of devils and suggests that a "confederacy of deceivers" creates "the Kingdom of Darkness." The third book about a Christian Commonwealth annoyed the audience because it declared civil laws more important than religious laws. It suggests that a social contract to obey an absolute authority represented by the titular entity is necessary to avoid the war of all against all. Life is "nasty, brutish, and short," according to, for 10 points, what work by Thomas Hobbes?
According to this book, the conservation of motion is the cause of human thoughts.
{Leviathan}