Hobbes fist provides a set of laws, the laws of nature, which aim to guide human behavior towards self-preservation. ... Though Hobbes is able to strategically construct his argument by deduction reasoning of the state of nature as a stratagem for expressing the favorable view of an absolute sovereignty compared to the chaotic state of perpetual insecurity without this form of government, his argument fails, however, in the sense that he disregards the phenomenon that is altruism and the inherent goodness in human beings. ...

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