The Art of War
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Hobbs's Idea of a State of Nature
In the leviathan in the middle of the seventeenth century, when he seems to be saying a nature is a state of war. And e then getino developing in europe an absolutist which continues the ensieu regime ad whereas in britain and later in the united states, you have a representative model of government. So for hobbs, there is a very clear choice to be made between war or law, which he perceives to be conceptual alternatives. It's the complete antithesis to am the case that we saw plato putting earlier on. We get, for him, we get war as part of the natural state, that the civil society or the common
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