Who /nasty-brutish-and-short/ here?

Hobbes is literally the best political thinker in any capacity of all time.

>>1553459
I know this is from the Leviathan, but what was he describing?

>>1553494
State of nature.

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>>1553459
>>1553481
how do you reconcile the value of liberty with the reality that a single strongman is preferable to a patchwork of warlords

>>1553544
>a single strongman is preferable to a patchwork of warlords

would you please provide some evidence to support this claim?

>>1553494
His vision of what the state of nature would be, essentially men without a state. Essentially without law and order you would have a war of every man against every man over scarce resources. To stop this from happening the state has to monopolize the right to kill, excluding cases where your life was in danger

>>1553544
A patchwork of warlords is probably not what the advocates of liberty had in mind