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John LockeThe political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes is best seen in his work Leviathan, written amid the chaos of the English Civil War. Locke, on the other hand, laid out his political philosophy in his Two...
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Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil
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Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and CivilIn this chapter, the Fool says (not necessarily to Hobbes himself) that there is not really any such thing as justice. He says that people might as well just do whatever is useful for them. The...
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Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and CivilAccording to Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan, the natural state of man is warfare, which makes life "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." This was a consequence of the basic equality of men in...
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Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and CivilAre you sure you have this question transcribed right? The answer really should be F, but only if F is "none of the above." This is because A-D are all characteristics of the state of nature. Let...
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Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and CivilFor Hobbes, the social contract is a contract that people make with one another that allows them to live together in a society. If people do not make such a contract, they will be living in a...
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Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and CivilHobbes does address the idea of justice when speaking about Natural Law, however, justice enters only at a tertiary level. The primary components of Natural Law allow for neither justice nor...
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Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and CivilThe answer to this can be found in the very first paragraph of the introduction to this work. There, Hobbes argues that the leviathan is artificial because it is made by people to imitate...
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Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and CivilSo are you just asking what this time is called? This time is called the state of nature. In the state of nature, there is what is often called the war of each against all, though Hobbes' own...