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As Hobbes writes in The Leviathan, Western civilization views the world as a "war of all men against all other men." Basically, the world is made up of individu
by simmanian 7y ago
As Hobbes writes in The Leviathan, Western civilization views the world as a "war of all men against all other men." Basically, the world is made up of individuals, and everyone is on their own, and they must fight with others in a zero-sum game to attain safety and happiness. If you subscribe to this view, it becomes harder for people to see that it's actually in your interest to act in good faith.
That is how I understood GP's comment.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoI guess there's just this mentality of "the peace of all with all" instead of "the war of all against all". That's how it feels.