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Comment: “How would and my fellow human beings behave if we were to find ourselves in a state of nature, and what does this behavior tells us about our innate predispositions?” (Thomas Hobbes)

  • UPSC 2016
  • 10 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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The question restates the thought experiment of chapter 13 of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651): remove the common power to keep them all in awe and ask how people like us would act. His answer is war, but what it reveals is less innate wickedness than a drive for self-preservation that becomes dangerous under equality and…

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  • How We Would Behave
  • What It Tells Us About Our Predispositions
  • Critiques
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