In the Leviathan, Hobbes coined the phrase, “natural condition of mankind”. This is what would exist if there were not political authority, no civilization and no authority to confine human nature. This inevitably means that the ‘state of nature’ is “a condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man” (Hobbes, 185). Hobbes views on human nature established that most individuals are ruthless and selfish. Therefore humans in the ‘state of nature’ lose senses of their morals and will unsurprisingly kill each other. According to Hobbes life in the ‘state of nature is very similar to civil war in which humans fear “the danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short” (Hobbes,
In the Leviathan, Hobbes coined the phrase, “natural condition of mankind”. This is what would exist if there were not political authority, no civilization and no authority to confine human nature. This inevitably means that the ‘state of nature’ is “a condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man” (Hobbes, 185). Hobbes views on human nature established that most individuals are ruthless and selfish. Therefore humans in the ‘state of nature’ lose senses of their morals and will unsurprisingly kill each other. According to Hobbes life in the ‘state of nature is very similar to civil war in which humans fear “the danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short” (Hobbes,