SJSU Leviathan with Selected Variants from The Latin Edition by Edwin Curley Summary

Read short reading and answer these question in 300-400 words

The book name: Leviathan with Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1688, ed. Edwin Curley (Hackett, 1994)

Author: Thomas Hobbes

Focus on pgs. 74-78 of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (Book 1, Ch. 13). Answer the following questions in a 300-400 word paragraph. Please cite directly the text which you use to support your point (The text from reading won’t count toward length)

NO OUTSIDE SOURCE!!! Plagiarism FREE please!!!

1) What is the state of war that Hobbes is referring to? Is it a literal state of war where there are battles and armies? Or does he have something else in mind? Elaborate.

2) What is it about human beings that leads them to be in this war-like condition? What enters the picture and leads to a cessation of this war-like natural condition? How?

3) According to Hobbes, what sort of things do we lose when we exist in such a state? Imagine that right now today the police, fire departments, and all parts of the official government is dissolved. What are your concerns, if any?