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Power Hungry In The Leviathan By Thomas Hobbes

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“The Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes portrays the world as power hungry. He claims men desire power over one another and without a clear authority figure they would be in a constant state of war. At the beginning of his chapter “Of the Difference of Manners”, Hobbes addresses this desire as never ending until death. He states “I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.” Hobbes affirms this desire dies with man, however later in the chapter Hobbes asserts of a “desire of fame after death”. Didn’t desire die with man? This inconsistency not only weakens his credibility but weakens his argument. As a reader, I’m left confused as to when or if desire of power
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