Dave Ricker Why does Hobbes think that sovereignty needs to be absolute and perpetual? ... Hobbes's view of the man's place in the natural world is famously described in Chapter 13 of Leviathan; " .continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."" ... In short, man in nature was in a perpetual state of war thought Hobbes. ... Locke clearly delineates the bounds between a state of nature and the state of war, a difference that Hobbes denies; Hobbes felt the two were one and the same. One can even sense that Locke is a...

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Hobbes - founder of modern social thought - tried to explain nature of man and society w/out recourse to assumptions of Greco-Christian tradition - born 1588 - Only certain principle of human conduct was self preservation - Descarte- humans could still know reality even if no resemblance between our sense experience and external world - Elements of Philosophy physics, psychology, & political implications sections, basis of work - Theory hold that all social relations are artificial & are products of calculation rather than impulse or affection - Humans must give their consent to absolu...

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