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hobbes
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Hobbes' Leviathan is often seen as mainly concerned with the question of whether and to what extent it is rational for human beings to subject themselves to the obligations and responsibilities of organized political life. In this sense, Leviathan presents Hobbes' account of the general aspects of our condition and constitution which rationally account for the observed tensions between individual freedom and social-political order. Perhaps more influential than any of the book's actual arguments, however, has been Hobbes' vivid imagery of human psychology or the "natural passions" which forms a crucial premise for the famous argument of chapters 13-16.
Hobbes' argument begins by laying out a vision of the "natural condition of mank
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