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Thomas Hobbes argues that in a state of nature without government or laws, human life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." According to Hobbes, humans are rational and self-interested, and in the state of nature where there is no authority to enforce rules, life is a condition of "war of all against all" as humans seek to maximize their power and security. Hobbes proposes that rational individuals would establish a social contract and sovereign authority like a leviathan to curb human natur

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Abdullah Saeed

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