| Steven Sanders, Aeon J. Skoble - 2008 - 282 pages
...of man was one of endless war and complete insecurity of life, liberty, and property. As he puts it, "It is manifest, that during the time men live without...in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man."3 For Hobbes, the state of nature lacks... | |
| Patricia Heberer, J_rgen MatthÜus - 2008 - 358 pages
...endure. Instead, to use Thomas Hobbes's bleak description from 1651, human existence would likely be in "that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man In such condition there is ... continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pages
...men from the anarchy of their own desires. The natural state of humanity, he insists in Leviathan, is "that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man" (I.xiii.8-9). In this "state of nature" before the imposition of laws by a sovereign power, there is... | |
| Karl E Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac - 2008 - 528 pages
...expressly cautioned (Part One, Chapter 8). "During the time men live without a common power to keep them in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is every man against every man." Having made no preparations for imposing a common power in postconquest... | |
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