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This 5 page paper looks at this well known work and what it means. The paper outlines this piece and then goes on to critique it. Many quotes are included. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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sees monarchal rule as legitimate rule. According to Thomas Hobbes, the people would go wild and would become dangerous and so man then accepts authority in order to mitigate the
problems man would create for himself (Honderich, 1995). Hobbes (1660) writes: "NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found
one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as
that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he." There is a sense that man lives by his nature
and one can see that this is the case in modern times. Man has evolved but much of the improvement in society goes to technology, not to morality. In fact,
some claim there is a declining morality and this is true despite attempts for psychology and psychiatry to create a perfect world. Today, there is a pill for every malady
and an attempt to create conformists and people who get along. There is even a pill for what is dubbed "social anxiety disorder," which does suggest that a social goal
is that everyone should get along. But Hobbes knew early on that people do not get along so they need rules. Hobbes (1660) goes further in his observations and writes:
"For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without
fear, no more than without sense." Here, he writes about the fact that things are always changing. nothing is stagnant. This is a keen observation and something that many philosophers
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