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This 3 page report discusses the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and his greatest work Leviathan. In Leviathan, Hobbes presents the concept that Hobbes was convinced that the "state" existed as an artificial creation of man to protect and preserve the interests of the individual. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the 17th century, Hobbes has come to be acknowledged in numerous academic circles as the founder of modern political theory. Hobbes greatest work, Leviathan, presented the essential rationality of man,
the theories of natural right, natural law, the state of nature, and the social contract that exists in human societies. The student studying Thomas Hobbes should understand that many of
the most basic ideas and ideals of the modern Western world were founded on Hobbes thinking. Hobbes was convinced that the state existed
as an artificial creation of man to protect and preserve the interests of the individual. One of the most important and basic concerns that any and every individual has is
security. Security serves as the bulwark for every person in every aspect of his or her life ranging from economic prosperity to the simple security of having a roof
over ones head. Hobbes and Nature In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes presents man as a machine operating on the basis of cause-and-effect or
stimulus-response. Man seeks to achieve a single goal-the satisfaction of human appetite. Appetite arises out of sensation as the external world presses upon human sense organs. The sights, smells, touches,
and sounds of pleasurable things gives rise to appetite. Appetite gives rise to will; will precedes action. For Hobbes, the "State of Nature" is a state in which all:
"... men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them... In such condition there
is no place for Industry; because the fruit there of is uncertain... and (men live in) continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man (is) solitary,
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