... According to Hobbes (Leviathan, 1651), the state of nature was a world: "where there was no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of people, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." In a state of nature, everyone would be equal but although equal, everyone would want to have the ability to dominate all others. In turn, this generates a feeling of constant fear for survival making people violent and threatening on a continual basis. In other words, survival, or ...

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