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 Thomas Hobbes (1588 –1679) was born in England and he was a philosopher, remembered for his work on political philosophy.  Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history, geometry, physics of gases, theology, ethics, general philosophy, and political science. His account of human nature as self-interested cooperation has proved to be an enduring theory in the field of philosophical anthropology.

 He was considered in thinking history like a dark person, in fact in 1666 in England his books were burnt because they considered him atheistic.  After his death, his books were burnt again in public. In life Hobbes had two big enemies: the Church of England and Oxford University.

 Translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War  The Elements of Law, Natural and Political, written in 1640 and comprising › Human Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policie › De Corpore Politico  1651–8. Elementa philosophica › De Cive (Latin) › Philosophicall Rudiments concerning Government and Society (English translation of De Cive) › De Corpore (Latin) › De Corpore (English translation) › De Homine (Latin)  Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil.  The Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance  Posthumously Behemoth, or The Long Parliament (written in 1668, unpublished at the request of the King)

 Hobbes defended that without an authoritarian and unified power, we can’t live in society because if human beings aren’t kept in control by the power, they start a war among each others.  The industry in this state can’t be developed, because you don’t know the benefit that it would provide.

 Where it isn’t law there isn’t justice, so there won’t be crimes, before existing an opinion of what is right or wrong, it must exist a power that defines it.  So, an authority state is the one in which it exists the private property and the citizen’s freedom of that state is in what the government says, it doesn’t matter what is.

 Human beings are selfish, we think in ourselves before the others. If we can do bad things to the others they can also do the same to us, so we won´t do it because we always lose for our self-interests.  For example: during the Cold War USA were afraid of Russia because they could send a missile. And so Russia were afraid too. In the society it´s the same, if all the people are afraid of the others nobody kills anyone.

 There are less crimes in a dictatorship because people are afraid of committing them, because for a little thing like stealing a wallet the government could kill you. So, in a dictatorship there is more security.  For example: in Cuba if you stole a tourist, the government could punish you really strongly because tourists bring money to the country.  IF YOU ARE AFRAID, YOU FOLLOW THE RULES.

 If the democracies has to do an important decision in a short period of time they can´t because they will be discussing for a long time what to do.  These doesn’t happen in a dictatorship, it won´t be this problem because only a person makes decisions.  An example is when governments have to decide if they have to defend themselves from the assault of other country or not.  Only one can decide this in a little time.

 Human nature makes people to be in a permanent estate of war which only can be pacified with a very though power that keeps everyone in peace by giving up the right of killing.