For Hobbes, the greatest good and the greatest evil, respectively, for a human being are:
a. Glory and disgrace
b. Comfortable self-preservation and violent death
c. Salvation of one’s soul and eternal damnation
d. Virtue and vice
Ans: b. Comfortable self-preservation and violent death
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