PSC 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World Government
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All of what hobbes says about the life of individual men in the state of nature may be read as a description of the condition of states in relation to one another . This isn"t the whole of world politics, but it conditions the whole . Definition of anarchy= absence of government; a state of lawlessness due to the absence or inefficiency of the supreme power. Internationally, we are in a state of anarchy, because we don"t have a world government. Anarchists see no government as a free and beautiful way of life. Hobbes would disagree because he sees a need for a supreme leader or. He demonstrates how we innately believe this when we lock our doors and belongings for safety from even our family members. Having a leviathan, people are released from the state of nature, which is a state of war. Like individuals, nations resort to war because of competition, diffidence,
