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... when Hobbes' states "For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire" (p34). By this explanation of human nature, Hobbes is then able to construct his argument that it is impossible for human beings to live in continual security and peace ... ...
... has sovereign right over all things and it is a sovereign law to self-preserve. The only tool to do this given to man through nature is his ˜unaided impulses of desire' (Spinoza, 1951) it is man's right to obtain anything he desires as if he funds it useful to himself then it is his right to have it to self-preserve ... ...
... may not be better off in this society because it will inevitably collapse under the immense pressure of its citizens having to compete so heavily for what it is they desire. In Peter Hayes' article, "The Bourgeois Moderation," we are presented with the argument that Macpherson and other scholars' error in the thinking that Hobbes transfers the intense competition of the ... ...
