Thomas Hobbes | of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning

question 83

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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.
-Hobbes stated that when men live without common power ruling over them, they are in

• A) a state of innocence.
• B) the condition of ignorance.
• C) the condition of war.
• D) a state of bliss.

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