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- The war of all against all is an empirical impossibility: as any successful violent action entails organisation and as organised action requires collective coord-ination, hierarchy and the delegation of tasks, all warfare is inevitably a social event.
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Bellum omnium contra omnes, a Latin phrase meaning "the war of all against all", is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state-of-nature thought experiment that he conducts in De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651).
Mar 4, 2024 · “Bellum omnium contra omnes” means “the war of all against all.” It refers to a theoretical state of conflict in which each person is motivated by self-interest and acts aggressively against others to acquire wealth, status, and power.
Feb 12, 2002 · Hobbes argues that each of us, as a rational being, can see that a war of all against all is inimical to the satisfaction of her interests, and so can agree that “peace is good, and therefore also the way or means of peace are good”.
- Sharon A. Lloyd, Susanne Sreedhar
- 2002
The war of all against all is an empirical impossibility: as any successful violent action entails organisation and as organised action requires collective coord-ination, hierarchy and the delegation of tasks, all warfare is inevitably a social event.
640 social research he had fled before the outbreak of the English Civil War of 1642–47. As a man who prided himself on his timidity in much the way other men prided themselves on their courage, he claimed to have been “the first of them that fled.” He ascribed his fearfulness to the circumstances of his birth.
real conclusion that Hobbes draws (and needs) is that the state of nature is a state of war of all against all, punctuated by frequent, violence, in which the participants correctly perceive themselves to be in constant. danger.
Inverting Aristotle’s view of politics, Hobbes argued that humans organize themselves into political communities not out of any sociable impulse to pursue the good life in common, but rather out of an unsociable fear of one another and for the sake of avoiding the greatest evil of all: death.
