... being in this state of nature is the worst possible reality, but like all arguments, not everyone will agree to his reasoning. That being said, I acknowledge Hobbes' ability to form a persuasive argument for an absolute sovereignty, however his depiction of the state of human nature greatly underestimates the capacity of human compassion thus his theory of absolute sovereignty has the potential ... ...

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... into his argument of his Marxist framework. Hayes offers a much more optimistic and peaceful analysis of Hobbes' bourgeois society, so much that it is more convincing that Macpherson's already extremely persuasive article. Many of the points that Hayes makes about Hobbes' work seem to make more sense if the end goal of Leviathan was to show us how we can construct ... ...

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