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By representing it with “continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man [is] solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short” (186), Thomas Hobbes depicted the State of Nature, as described in Leviathan, as an adverse state. Hobbes used his explanation of human nature to show why this State would be so unfavorable, as well as why humans would want to follow his suggestion for getting out of such a State.
Hobbes’ hypothesis for justifying human action was parallel to his mechanistic view of the world. He was able to rationalize the nature of any human being in terms of A man, he decided, would simply move towards that which he desires, and away from that which he dislikes. Since Hobbes felt that nature created men equally for the most part – slight differences between individuals he considered insignificant – he realized that humans would tend to desire many of the same things.
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