Whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil.
— Thomas Hobbes Early Modern

Leviathan, social contract

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Leviathan, Part I, Chapter XV

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1651

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Controversial

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm#link2H_4_0009

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