HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Proletariat, Thomas Hobbes, Industrial Revolution
8 Nov 2020
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Liberalism focuses on individual human beings and not on the social structures in which they participate, or from which, according to conservatives and socialists, they derive their identity. Moreover, if these social structures are not useful, they lose their right of existence. As hobbes had pointed out, if several powers exist simultaneously, they will compete. This holds true not only for individual human beings, but also for larger social entities such as. If the hobbesian argument is followed to its logical end, this means that there cannot be peace in the world as long as there are several powers next to each other without a more significant power to keep order. Still following this logic, this means that there are two reasons why human beings should ultimately not be attached to social structures smaller than a world-encompassing state. The first reason is that only an all-encompassing state can bring the security that humans long for.
