Thomas Hobbes
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Philosophy
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“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”
Aphilsopher to stand in contradiction to Adam Smith. Whereas Smith recognises human society’s ability to productively self-organise, Hobbes stands for the principle that the only thing that stops us from murdering each other is a powerful, coercive state: A Leviathan, as he would describe it in his famous book.