Philosophy / Unit 8 Philosophy 0322 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hobbes's State of Nature
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The idea
Hobbes's version: without a common power to fear, self-interested equals collide—life becomes a war of all against all, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
In practice
No farming, building, or trade survives where anyone may seize anything: rational people preempt, and preemption is war.
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