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Thomas Hobbes and the Church
Thomas Hobbes was an Englishman who lived during the Civil Wars, which were bloody and nasty in that country. Rebecca Solnit argues that a deeper backdrop was that Thomas Hobbes lived in a very Christian society. According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, our life in the state of nature was actually pretty good. But then everything went wrong when we gave up our liberty.