Mr Grasse says that Thomas Hobbes most famous work, Leviathan, “our principal emotion is fear, and government is created not as the sum of our freedoms and aspirations be a giant King Kong stomping all over the country.” What Hobbes actually said was that life without political authority would be “nasty, brutish, and short” and that we needed a government elected by the people it was governing to make and uphold laws otherwise we would revert back to nature and basically fight for everything we wanted, without Hobbes, the western world (including America) would not be run the way it is now, we would be living in fear everyday as food, clothes, and any other possessions we had could be taken from us by anyone using whatever force they wanted.
Just to add, had it not been for Hobbes and his “every man is equal” philosophy then we would probably still allow slavery (abolished 1833 UK 1863 USA).
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