![]() ![]() He suggests that people should transfer their rights to one person who will be above everyone else and enforce the laws for people. Hobbes argues that the laws of nature can only be put in place if power is created and used to enforce the laws. That means he can go out of his way and take advantage of the war to obtain peace. The first natural law Hobbes points out is that every person has the right to endeavor peace as far as he has the hope of obtaining it (Martel, 2012). ![]() The only form of laws that exist in the state of nature are principles which are based on self-preservation. Hobbes characterizes life in nature as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" (Martel, 2012). It entails a perpetual state of violence because everyone has a natural claim to everything. Hobbes defines the state of nature as "every man's battle against every other man" (Spragens Jr, 2015). ![]() The real or imagined natural condition of human interaction is referred to as the state of nature. His idea is founded on the current state of nature. In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes presents his moral and political philosophy of human nature, or how humans interact with one another. ![]()
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