POL113H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Proletariat, Omnipotence, Dana Loesch
15 Oct 2017
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Sunday, september 24, 2017: hobbes, leviathan (1651), ch. Hobbes"s theory for peace grows out of his vision of human nature, and. Hobbes"s conception of human nature is simply the sum total of mechanic appetites and aversions, mediated by power struggles. Even though people may differ in the strengths of their various natural powers, all people are naturally equal, because even the weakest is capable of killing the strongest by some means; thus battle is inevitable. Hobbes can describe the natural condition of mankind before society, government, and the invention of law. This natural condition, free of all arti cial interferences, is one of continuous war and violence, of death and fear. Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man. The hobbesian state of nature is an instructive ction, a reasoned deduction of what human nature might have been like in a hypothetical existence prior to any civilization.
