14 | Thomas Hobbes Hates Your Book Club
What's Left of Philosophy
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The State of Nature Never Goes Away
The state of nature is always at the edges of the polity, that must be kept at bay. The only way to do that is through inequality, to keep it at bay. And so yo seems to me, for hobs, that no, the state of nature never goes away. Ye, jus you don't have a bad conscience on which to start to work like a member of the state. I mean, i think that's right. He wrote, he wrote a book, a kind of historical dialogue, about the english civil wars later in life, and he called it behemoth. In some ways, t behemoth represents this kind of gor of this fractious multitude
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