Leviathan

I will read during the course Leviathan written in 1651 and written by Thomas Hobbes who was an English philosopher.

He acclaims that human beings are not naturally good but selfish. People behave just what he or she want to do if they are at natural state. He tried to describe the human society without a government or a rule. And he concluded that people would fight against one another in order to pursue their self-interests. Then, he stated that the way to avoid such cruel situstion is that to have commonwealth.

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