Q Questions for Consideration: • What is the state of nature for hobbes 1. How does it relate to human nature? 2. What do you think? • How should we respond to this? How does Hobbes respond to this? • Hobbes says that we are inclined to peace by three different causes (bottom of page 120), one of which is the fear of death. What do you make of this? • How does Hobbes define justice and injustice ? (question well keep seeing throughout the course – important to keep track of these in your notes) • What is freedom? • What are the three causes of quarrel? (repeat ‘quarrel’ out loud a bunch of times when ni say this question) 1. What do you think 2. Is this list exhaustive? 3. Can you think of another cause? NO CLASS IVE HAD YET CAN DO IT?! • What do you think about Hobbes’s remarks about what we are denied in the time of war? • What does Hobbes mean when he says that “force and fraud” are the two cardinal virtues of the state of nature? • What do you make of sovereign absolutism ? Benefits? Drawbacks and criticisms?

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