Thomas Hobbes Flashcards
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Key work
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Leviathan
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Human nature
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Very skeptical view of human nature, life was ‘nasty, brutish and short’ before the state emerged.
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State
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Argued that the ‘natural rights’ liberals described did not exist without the state.
He argued that the state needed to define right and wrong. Without the state there would be ‘natural chaos’ in which everyone would have their own version of right and wrong.
Society according to Hobbes did not exist without there being a state.
Argued for the state to have autocratic power and power not being divided up.
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Economy
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Believed that to function the economy requires order that the strong state would provide.
