... , that they were merely physical, and that human life was nasty, short, poor, brutish, and solitary. This contributes to his belief that if all people had an unlimited amount of power, it would become "a perpetual war of every man against his neighbor," meaning that people are motivated solely by passions, and will do almost anything to fulfill their desires. Humans a lot ... a corrupt being, but Hobbes counters that by saying that a corrupt ruler is better than no ruler. Hobbes thought there to be nothing worse than "what proceeds from the subjects' disobedience, and breech of the coven...

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