Machiavelli and Hobbes, in their essays (the Prince by Machiavelli & the Leviathan by Hobbes) focused on studying how people act and how social systems are governed. ... He says that people have "continual fear and danger of violent death" (Hobbes, Leviathan), which means that humankind live to enjoy pleasure and avoid pain. ... The second reason is that democracy believes in moral basis, it considers conscience as a moral compass that always points to the right direction, however Hobbes thinks that humans do not share the same view of morality, for example my morality might differ f...

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