PHL265H1 Chapter : September 18 Hobbes Leviathan ch 13 and 17.docx
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Chapter 13: of the natural condition of mankind, as concerning their felicity and misery. Nature made men equal in the faculties of body and mind; men all have the ability to claim the same benefit. Intelligence, prudence, experiences is worth more than strength; they lose this faculty when they claim to know all. From equality of ability arises equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. If two men desire the same thing which they cannot both enjoy they become enemies. They must then focus on their own conservation and must destroy the other man as well. There is no way to secure a man from the power of another man no matter his strength, intelligence etc. Every man wants his fellow man to look at him with the same value as he looks upon himself. Among men there are three principal causes of quarrel: competition, diffidence, glory.
