Political Situation in China

Hobbes believed that man in the state of nature is a self-centered being who seeks peace in order to survive. The social contract into which men enter with a sovereign in order to achieve a peaceful and civil society is an expression of that desire to survive and to live protected in life and property by that sovereign (Hobbes 140-141).

With respect to the selection of Nationalism as the most effective and appropriate form of government for early twentieth century China, Hobbes' political philosophy is useful as support based on his emphasis on order and security. Whereas Communism is based on justice and equality, Nationalism is a political force which in Sun Yatsen's definition emphasizes a broadening of the nation's and people's relationship with the government, a change which Hobbes' social contract would include as a function of the sovereign's relationship with the people.

Sun Yatsen writes, for example, that the reason that China was as far from being as powerful, united and influential on the world scene as it should have been in the earl

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