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Thomas Hobbes claimed that life in the state of nature would be the "war of all against all" and it would seem "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes.
Thomas Hobbes believed that an absolute monarchy - a government that gave all power to a king or queen - was best.
Hobbes believed that people were inherently evil, while Locke argued people were born as blank slates.
Thomas Hobbes claimed that life in the state of nature would be the "war of all against all" and it would seem "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." As a result, humans were naturally prone to violence and antagonism. Consequently, Hobbes argued that there should be a "Leviathan" or an all-powerful dictator who could keep order and repress the violent tendencies of the human population.
Thomas Hobbes claimed that life in the state of nature would be the "war of all against all" and it would seem "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes.
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Hobbes presented three types of government monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. He argued that monarchy was the best.
Thomas Hobbes believed that an absolute monarchy - a government that gave all power to a king or queen - was best.
Hobbes argued for a distinction between knowledge and faith and suggested that one could not gain a knowledge of God. Thus his religion was Atheism; Agnosticism
I'm sure there were others both before him and after him who aruged the same question, but I know that Thomas Hobbes was one that argued it.
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Hobbes believed that people were inherently evil, while Locke argued people were born as blank slates.
Thomas Hobbes claimed that life in the state of nature would be the "war of all against all" and it would seem "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." As a result, humans were naturally prone to violence and antagonism. Consequently, Hobbes argued that there should be a "Leviathan" or an all-powerful dictator who could keep order and repress the violent tendencies of the human population.
Hobbes described the state of nature as a condition of war of all against all, where life was "nasty, brutish, and short." In this state, individuals acted solely in their own self-interest, leading to constant conflict and insecurity. To escape this chaos, Hobbes argued for a social contract to establish a sovereign authority to maintain peace and order.
Hobbes argued that because the "general will" of the people was for freedom, the people as a whole should force individual citizens to conform to the general will.