The fear of death and the longing for immortality: Hobbes and Thucydides on human nature and the problem of anarchy

American Political Science Review

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 579-593

  Ahrensdorf, Peter J ^a  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2585832     Document Type: Article

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