1. Hobbes Theory of Peace and Absolute Sovereignty
By this explanation of human nature, Hobbes is then able to construct his argument that it is impossible for human beings to live in continual security and peace without an overarching authority to take dominion over what he coins as the commonwealth. ... The desires for security of the basic necessities of life as well as our inability to be perfectly contempt with the power we already have are the fundamental conceptions in explaining why competition is prevalent in the state of nature, since the measures of one's power is relative to the power of others. ... That being said, Hobbes arg...
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