Hobbes defines this phenomenon when he states, "Continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth, that is to say, continual prospering, is that men call FELICITY" (p34). ... Because of this natural condition of mankind, Hobbes describes its' results as follows, "during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man" (p76). ... However none of these laws will be effective if people, by who they intrinsically are, have ...

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