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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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Leviathan
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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"...the chaos, all the destruction, and he wrote a book called Leviathan. Leviathan is to justify why Britain returned to a monarchy instead of..."
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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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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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