PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: State Of Nature, Resource Management
27 Feb 2017
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Providing for all not just as an individual. Without a common power to fear . Ultimately a state of nature involves a state of war because there is no force that each individual equally fears. Without a common power to over-awe them all" hobbes believes that life will involve: continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Security is the primary benefit of obedience to a common power. Security of life, liberty, property, and pursuits. State of freedom and equality in nature. Freed - individual liberty of thought and action. All men are naturally in a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit. Without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man. (p. 14) Within the bound of the law of nature .
