... that although they share a lack of supreme power, the state of nature and the state of war are not the same. In the Leviathan, Hobbes makes an analogy which parallels the civil state to the parts of a human body. He compares each part of the state to a particular ... strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are in the same danger with himself."" (Leviathan) Hobbes' notion is that human nature is made up of mechanic appetites (towards something) and aversions (fromward something), mediated by power struggles. Given our ... ...

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