1. Political Thinkers - Hobbes and Spinoza
Hobbes view of men is that all men are equal as the differences in mind and body between men is relatively small, and the weakest man can kill the strongest ˜either by secret machination or confederacy with others...' (Hobbes, 1651: ), and all men are ˜content with his share'(Hobbes, 1651: ) as all men think they are smarter than everyone else. This equality, however, is what leads men to have the equal hope with every other man of reaching their goals or objectives in life which are towards self-preservation or indeed a pleasure and as this equal hope for the same things which...
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