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History of Ideas: Hobbes on the State

TALKING POLITICS

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Hobbes in Leviathan Is Everything Politics

Hobbes said that people are free to do whatever is most profitable for themselves. Hobbes was a kind of proto-capitalist this was about defending the rights of the profit of the profit makers he really meant by profitable just to do whatever seems best as creatures in motion. You can never be sure one day the sovereign might decide that your personal practices your religion your sex life how you live those parts of your life have got nothing to do with politics what goes on inside the place where you live inside your bed the sovereign may decide it's a threat to the security of the state.

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