Could you elaborate? Are also all communities based on mutual fear? And how much the concept of community is part of the concept of society?
Hobbes draws an anthropology before stating his theory of the state. But we should take care here, a few points: firstly the anthropology is terribly negative and the conclusion are that without government we would…
My point was: if we already live with such conditions we may have lost the fight to live in a decent society. And a society which is not decent is not a society, it's only an amalgam of people.
If we need mutual fear to assure civility, I'm pretty sure the term society does not apply anymore.
Could you elaborate? Are also all communities based on mutual fear? And how much the concept of community is part of the concept of society?
Hobbes draws an anthropology before stating his theory of the state. But we should take care here, a few points: firstly the anthropology is terribly negative and the conclusion are that without government we would…
My point was: if we already live with such conditions we may have lost the fight to live in a decent society. And a society which is not decent is not a society, it's only an amalgam of people.
If we need mutual fear to assure civility, I'm pretty sure the term society does not apply anymore.