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hobbes
Title: hobbes
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 304 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
hobbes
Hobbes, on the other hand, believes that war is a natural condition of mankind. Hobbes takes off to suggest that we are motivated by selfish self interests and because of that, we are better off living in a world of moral rules. Without there rules we are at the mercy of other people’s self - interest. War becomes the need to gain control of our own environments when others try to exploit us.
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…showed last 75 words of 304 total…But unless there is a betrayal, war would be against the law of nature.
The fourth law of nature, to show gratitude to others who benefit you, is a take off of the love thy neighbor theme, it seems. It follows that if I help you in war then you have benefited me and I should benefit you in return for a mutal defence. Preservation is a self - interest and we all desire that.
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