Leviathan Thomas Hobbes’ Discussion

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes’ Discussion

Instructions

  1. Why does Hobbes compare government to the human body?  What are its various parts?  What are their functions?
  2. What does Hobbes mean when he says that “nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind…” ? What are the consequences of this equality?
  3. What are the 3 causes of quarrel?
  4. What does Hobbes mean when he says that a state of “nature” is a state of war?
  5. What is the one right that a person always possesses and never – indeed, can’t – give up?
  6. What are the advantages of a Commonwealth?  What are the two types of Commonwealth?

The link for the answers are below

https://people.uwplatt.edu/~drefcins/254hobbess.html

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