Hobbes believed that people, by nature, are in a state or war, but did he

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think people wanted peace? Hobbes' theory is that human's natural state is one of war. But, did he also believe that people wanted peace? That people wished they weren't in a state of war? Or did he just think that that is how it was and everyone accepted it?
 
Well, assuming that in this world there are equal and opposite reactions to everything, war must therefore be the opposite of peace. If that is so, and also assuming that Hobbes knew this and also that nature results from learned habits, then he would have believed that because war was ingrained into the human psyche, that it must derive from some place other than nature.
Observing that plants are not warring in nature, then he may've concluded that man must be warring within himself constantly between the good and evil within his soul. This internal conflict often finds outlets from the soul through actions, which in turn influence others to struggle and choose between good and evil.

That being the case, Hobbes would have perceived that this ingrained behavior was not the original state of nature, and that Humanity must have departed from some original state of goodness. (I.E. the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden).

However, upon noting the controversial and complex substance of the argument, he may've thought it better to go along with the theory that man in nature, is war.
 
Peace is the state of having won the war and remaining too strong for anyone to want to challenge you,

You must clear the Liberal drivel from your mind.
That war is some testosterone induced silliness brutal men do for fun & everyone just goes along because they are too stupid to see the light.

People don't just want Peace.

They want food, land, resources & Peace.
But life is a competition.

As per Malthus:
Peace & prosperity leads to population growth.
Population growth leads to scarcity.
Scarcity leads to war as Life competes for resource.

And not just in humans.

All life functions this way.
The competition of war is just more organized.
But across the world the same battle plays out countless times a day.

Darwin decrees that life is war.
The fittest survive.
And this is why we are who we are.

So bask in the Enlightened self righteousness of estrogen laden Lennons is you like, the keepers of the peace are men with guns.

This is the philosophy of Hobbes.
 
I don't think war solves anything. I think we're far from world peace though just yet. The people in the most power these days seem corruptive. I don't feel that being an American means I have more worth than those in other countries. The dilemma is usually just preventing terrorism, but I don't know what anyone can do yet. There are questions like why we were invaded on 911, not just for evilness, but what made the terrorists pushed? It's too sick for reasoning, it was unthinkably vicious situation. So everyone wanted to go out there and shoot back. It may have been envy of the US having more civilized advantages, freedoms etc. The US has more money too. It's kind of stupid, but not everyone knows about Jesus. Not many people know peace. The equal rights deal in the US may be a solution eventually if people can express it around the world. It may start with women presidents possibly because their nurturing and wise about health and natural comforting ideas. Women think about love before sex, which might explain a better beginning to projects. Men sin before they love. Can a president love the world, or just seeing his face in history, magazines, or dollar bills? It's a tough job, I wouldn't do it, but a lot of good women could.
 
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