The intellectual atmosphere of the 16th and 17th centuries had been undergoing a radical alteration as one area of inquiry after another yielded to the probing method of science. Hobbes caught the spirit of the times. Indeed, Hobbes sought to create a science of politics. Hobbes said that there are basic laws governing human behavior and that these laws are as precise as those in the physical world...
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If these laws were correctly understood, he said, it would be possible to create a government that works according to scientific principles. Hobbes believed that people act out of self-interest. Because they want power, possessions, security, honor and fame, they compete violently with each other. Without government to make and enforce laws, Hobbes felt there would be a war “of every man against every man” (Hobbes, 1982, 188) To maintain civilized life, said Hobbes, a strong government must set rules that control human nature...
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Locke Hobbes and Rousseau But conflict arises because people are self-interested and so not impartial in their own disputes. Recognizing the need for an impartial umpire, Lockean individuals leave the state of nature, in two stages, forming first a community and then government...	2 / 428
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