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Hobbes is presented as using civil-war chaos to justify monarchy and government: even bad government is necessary because the state of nature is violent and anti-innovative.
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Hobbes
Hobbes is presented as using civil-war chaos to justify monarchy and government: even bad government is necessary because the state of nature is violent and anti-innovative.
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"...is really famous for its political philosophers. At this time, Thomas Hobbes is one of the most dominant, political philosophers. He lived through the..."
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"no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death. The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty,..."
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"...a book club. Okay? They read John Locke. They read Thomas Hobbes. And they discussed these ideas. So this is a quintessential American attitude...."
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"...the second treatise but in it he basically explains that okay Hobbes is right we are born a saloon a chair and we do..."
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