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Hobbes's Leviathan is essentially a work of fantasy fiction. It has little to no grounding in historical fact. His idea of a "state of nature" is an unsupport
by dublinben 13y ago
Hobbes's Leviathan is essentially a work of fantasy fiction. It has little to no grounding in historical fact. His idea of a "state of nature" is an unsupported assertion.
- rayiner 13y agoLeviathan is a philosophical work, not an anthropological one. The "state of nature" doesn't denote a real period in human history.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Leviathan is a philosophical work, not an anthropological one. The "state of nature" doesn't denote a real period in human history. Right, its a thought experiment like Schrödinger's cat.