Hobbes called this "the condition of mere nature" where people make their own decisions and there are no authorities to enforce decisions on people. Hobbes believed that the reason we have a government today is because people give up their own individual power to give to an absolute authority. "Dissolute condition of masterlesse men, without subjection to lawes, and a coercive power to tye their hands from rapine, and revenge." (The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, Page 251) This means that if we do not have an absolute authority then we would lose comfort, socializing, and what a civilized life depends on. People give up their individual power to achieve these pleasures to an absolute authority. This is why humans are not their own jury, judge and executioner. .
Hobbes assumes that people are sufficiently similar in their mental and physical capabilities. That no one is invulnerable and cannot expect to dominate others. This means that Hobbes believes the mind and the body are similar in a way that makes us humans invulnerable to other people, and that we cannot dominate others because they are also invulnerable to us dominating them. Hobbes says that humans in nature tend to be curious about the causes of events and we are also anxious about our futures. But according to Hobbes the characteristics we show give us the ideas to adopt religious beliefs. Hobbes believes that we use God to help us in problems that may occur in the future and that we ask God why certain events occurred as they did.
Hobbes argued that if everybody pursued their natural rights to the end, there would be anarchy, a state of continuous warfare of "Everyman against everyman." (The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, Page 326) According to Hobbes, in order.
to preserve peace and maintain order people conceded their natural rights to a higher authority, or sovereign, laying the basis for the state of human nature. Hobbes philosophized that within a state of nature there is a state of war.