1. Political Thinkers - Hobbes and Spinoza
... To analyze the state of nature, we must, therefore, analyse the nature and characteristics of men. Hobbes view of men is that all men are equal as the differences in mind and body between men is relatively small, and the weakest man can kill the strongest ˜either by secret machination or ... than taken by Hobbes. Firstly, Spinoza gives a greater weighting to the differences of a man than Hobbes. Instead of Hobbes view that all men are equal and therefore are in competition for the same things, Spinoza instead argues that we are in essence a product of our environment no different from o...
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