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Thomas Hobbes War Of All Against All

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Solitary poor nasty brutish and short that is Thomas Hobbes dark description of life in the state of nature a war of all against all, the only remedy for such and existence is in legions to an absolute sovereign, Hobbes uses logic with almost mathematical precision to prove his point. Hobbes identifies two features of humans critical to his war of all against all, you need the capacity to reason and self-interest. A person would take his or her knowledge of experience combine them and come to a conclusion of some sort. All this knowledge comes from external stimuli as a human comes to this world as a blank state. Each individual can live a long life with what we consider to be good. Our capacity to reason combine with to live long and well
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