... could explain why Hobbes believed that good and evil were nothing more than terms which humans frequently used to describe things they liked and disliked. Hobbes believed that everyone is equal in mind more than body (at the time of his writing people had poor nutrition and little or no education, it would have been difficult to tell whether or not people are born equal). He thought that the minds of individuals are more or less the same and that they are interested in similar things. Hobbes also believed that people only do things in an act of selfishness, this means even when it appears that a person is doing something for the good of somebody else, they are actually gaining something from it for their own interests. People want to be happy. For most people it seems that material goods could make them content. This leads to competition as ...

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