Thomas Hobbes | of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning

question 28

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Thomas Hobbes | Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery; Of the First and Second Natural Laws and of Contracts
Hobbes first discusses the state of war in which men live before a common power can bring them together in civil society. By virtue of the natural and fundamental laws of nature, peace and cooperation can be attained only when man is willing to renounce a right to benefit someone else. A contract is the mutual transferring of right. Only then can lawful and just civilization develop.
-When men desire the same thing, according to Hobbes, they become

• A) equal.
• B) friends.
• C) enemies.
• D) weak.

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Phonemes

The smallest units of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another, such as the difference between the "p" sound in "pat" and the "b" sound in "bat."

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Phonetics

The branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human speech, including their production, transmission, and perception.

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The smallest grammatical units in a language, capable of conveying meaning, which can be either a word or a part of a word.