... Thomas Hobbes both believed that a society existed due to political regime. Without government, man is living in the state of nature. Thomas Hobbes first acknowledged this idea in his novel Leviathan written in the 1651. Written during the English Civil war, the circumstances are a probable cause for Hobbes' political notions. Hobbes considers that the state of nature is the state of ... ...

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... do almost anything to fulfill their desires. Humans a lot of the time think that their desires are good, when in fact they are quite bad, which Hobbes writes about in Leviathan. To keep humans and their constant desires in line, Hobbes suggests the sovereign ruler, a single ruler whose sole job is to protect the rights and well being of the people ... ...

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... to obey it and may, indeed, entitle us to overthrow it and establish a new government. THOMAS HOBBES • Might be described as pre-liberal, or perhaps a proto-liberal, thinker. • Leviathan 1651; "state of nature" • World of "perfect" liberty and equality. • Rational, self-interested people would have every reason to enter into a "social contract" to put themselves under the ... ...

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... thorough materialism offended the churchmen, so that in 1651 he felt impelled to return to England, where he was able to live peacefully and write his political manuscripts. In the Leviathan, Hobbes developed his political philosophy. He argued from a mechanistic view that life is simply the motions of the organism and that man is by nature a selfishly individualistic animal at constant ... ...

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