While this book denies the existence of a greatest good, it describes violent death as the greatest evil. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this book by Thomas Hobbes that advocates for an absolute monarch to avoid the “war of all against all” and is titled for a Biblical sea monster.
ANSWER: Leviathan [or Leviathan or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil]
[10h] The “war of all against all” occurs in this situation described as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” in Leviathan. This situation with a three-word name describes conditions experienced before humans formed societies.
ANSWER: “state of nature”
[10m] Unlike Hobbes, this philosopher described man in the state of nature as peaceful in Discourse on Inequality. Another book by this philosopher begins “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (That book is The Social Contract.)
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