The Fragility of Political Community, for Hobbs

Hobbs is different, crucially, uniquely diffe. And the difference is what's so distinctive about leviathan. The conventional social contract tradition says that to build a state out of nature, it has to come in two stages. You can't do it all in one go. First of all, those creatures living a naturalx tence have to build themselves a society. They have to form themselves into a community. But hobbs doesn't belong to it. If you can get away from the choice, it might be ugly to start with, but it will last. It's a sceptics, not a cynic's account of politics. That way, the either all