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This 5 page paper provides an overview of Hobbes's theories and critiques his political philosophy that is contingent on his ideas about man. Quotes from Leviathan are provided. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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why the science and the political order are flawed, one has to understand how Hobbes looks at the world. First, Hobbes sees man as being selfish and acting in self
interests (Honderich 368). Essentially, that is how he saw the essence of man. He highlighted the concept of mans will and suggested that if one wanted to be free, all
one had to do was act upon his will (368). That does not mean that he saw man as immoral. Rather, he saw man as being entrenched in morality and
in fact suggested that false moral views were a primary cause of the first Civil War (368). Hobbes applied the science of the nature of man, as he saw it,
to larger political philosophies. For example, Hobbes saw that it was dangerous if just a few willful men would become powerful (Honderich 368). To derive this point, and other theories
related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of attention to the nature of man. He said: "Nature hath made men so equall, in the faculties of body, and
mind; as that though there bee 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 himselfe any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as well as he" (Hobbes PG). Here,
the author takes the premise that every man by himself is worth just as much as any other. There is no one better than another. He goes on to say:
"For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are in the
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