Hobbes compares this hypothetical war of men to the exploration of the Americas in the 1600s, where there was no government or unity in the land and where the person with the biggest stick terrorized the inhabitants. ... His 1651 book Leviathan  established  the social contract  theory, which turned out to be the foundation of later Western political philosophy. ... Eventually they are consumed by the thought of master morality individuals that they do not have any goals in their life. ... Hobbes says that, "During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are...

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