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Comment on State of Nature as State of War (Hobbes).

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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In chapter 13 of Leviathan (1651) Thomas Hobbes holds that while men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in such a war, as is of every man, against every man. The claim is not that men always fight but that nothing assures peace. The equation is analytically powerful,…

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  • Why Nature Means War
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