Thomas Hobbes · Politics

The War of All Against All

Hobbes’s thought experiment: strip away government entirely, and human life becomes a terror of every man against every man.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Hobbes derives the need for government from the state of nature. Reconstruct why he thinks equality and scarcity lead to war, in your own words.

Leads to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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