POL200Y1 Lecture : Lecture Note
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Hobbes is the first thinker for whom power, and not the good, is the primary concern. Hobbes slips into a standard of living together in peace and unity no human being can escape from cycle of desire. Hobbes appraises different ways of life religion was a very important topic for hobbes religion in chapter 11 potential essay topic. What is most important for us, we make for ourselves. We are all equals why do we accept this statement? it was not an argument that was accepted, and considered repulsive and offensive. Machiavelli: all human beings are selfish all that nature gives us is the negation of all human ends. Hobbes is the first philosophical thinker to propose this. I t is in the very nature of law that it is just it is also very dangerous to think that there are unjust laws successful wickedness gains he name of virtue.
