WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Hobbes, we want to avoid the state of nature because it makes life ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It was so bad, Hobbes said, that rebellion against the government is never justified. No matter how badly the government mistreats you, the state of nature is worse-so just deal with it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hobbes also considers humans to be naturally vainglorious and so seek to dominate others and demand their respect. The natural condition of mankind, according to Hobbes, is a state of war in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” because individuals are in a “war of all against all” (L 186).

Detailed explanation-3: -He was firmly against the separation of government powers, either between branches of government or between church and state. His ecclesiastical history emphasizes the way in which power-hungry priests and popes threatened legitimate civil authority.

Detailed explanation-4: -His main concern is the problem of social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil conflict. He poses stark alternatives: we should give our obedience to an unaccountable sovereign (a person or group empowered to decide every social and political issue).