Hobbesian
a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
of, relating to, or recalling the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
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How to use Hobbesian in a sentence
Indigenous people thrived on this continent for millennia not in some kind of Hobbesian state of nature but as communities.
The capacity to be gracefully refuted in an argument is largely a moral one, and decreasing one’s desire for Hobbesian “dominion” is not something that another tutorial on statistics or game theory can achieve.
The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable | Nick Romeo | October 8, 2021 | Washington PostThe disasters that follow her freeing the vast slave cities of the eastern deserts teach her some very Hobbesian lessons.
Daenerys Goes to Washington: The Modern Politics of ‘Game of Thrones’ | Jedediah Purdy | April 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMen are more likely to have unrealistic expectations that they would succeed, rather than fail, in this Hobbesian state.
Jeb Golinkin acknowledges the "quasi-Hobbesian" arguments advanced by gun rights advocates.
The Morally Serious Arguments from Gun Proponents | Justin Green | December 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
But those kinds of decisions are going to set off a sort of Hobbesian war of all-against-all within the Democratic coalition.
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