Hobbes's construction of the state, as a nominalist hypothesis, begins with the division of history into two categories; "natural history," which is the effects of nature, and the history of plants, animals and countries, and the implications to man-kind. ... Through such hypothesis Hobbes is able to define man, and build a an argument of man and the common-wealth based upon his natural animal instincts. ...
The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ...
The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ...
