Consider Thomas Hobbes’ treatment of nature, society and government in Leviathan and Niccolo Machiavelli’s treatise on power, government and humanity in The Prince.

What is the purpose of government, according to Machiavelli and Hobbes? What human problems are these governments designed to solve, and how will they achieve this? What rights would the people have in these states?

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Hobbes states that nature and human activities are in a constant state of war since natural resource... View the full answer