I'm about to dive in to this. Anything I need to know before I start?

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Anonymous Sat Dec 16 08:22:48 2017 No.10408275 [Reply] [Original]

I'm about to dive in to this. Anything I need to know before I start?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 08:24:22 2017 No.10408279 >>10408275 You should know that my day went pretty well. Now I'm about to brush my teeth and go to bed. Enjoy your book, anon.

Anonymous Sat Dec 16 09:16:11 2017 No.10408381

Hobbes is relatively front-ended in this. He was writing in a volatile, war-time England, so his theory aims to maximize stability--obviously given the England he was living in. I would read Rousseau's discourse on the origin of inequality and Locke's The Second Treatise of Civil Government in addition to Leviathan. They offer less pessimistic conceptions of the state of nature. I don't think either are necessarily right, but there is something to both views. Best to know both.

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