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Leviathan

This text argues that humans are foremost concerned with their individual desires and fears. It shows a conflict of each against every man can be avoided by adopting a compact to enforce peace. It analyzes subversive forces - religion, ambition, private conscience - that threaten the body politic.
Print Book, English, 1998
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Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.], 1998
Early works
LV, 508 S Ill
9780192834980, 0192834983
245845151
Includes bibliographical references and index