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Hobbes

The State of Nature

In his brief introduction to the Leviathan, Hobbes describes the state as an organism analogous to a large person. He shows how each part of the state parallels
the function of the parts of the human body. He notes that the first part of his project is to describe human nature, insofar as humans are the creators of the state.
To this end, he advises that we look into ourselves to see the nature of humanity in general. Hobbes argues that, in the absence of social condition, every action
we perform, no matter how charitable ...

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