Part I, Chapter 13 of Leviathan, "the nature of War consisteth not in actuall fighting; but in the known disposition thereto" (Hobbes, 1651, p. 186).
Hobbes describes life in a state of nature as dreadful. In this state, people must depend on their own capabilities to protect themselves from others. In a state of constant warfare, there is no productive industry, agriculture, navigation, arts or letters. Worst of all, people live in continual fear of the "danger of violent death" (Hobbes, 1651, p. 186). As summed up by Hobbes, life of man in a state of nature is "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short" (Hobbes, 1651, p. 186). People eventually grow tired of living in a state of nature. When this happens, they are likely to form a social contrac
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