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Hobbesian
Hobbesian meaning
Of, relating to, or influenced by Thomas Hobbes or his philosophical theories. | Involving unrestrained, selfish, and uncivilized competition.
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Life in Gaza has become in Hobbesian terms, “ short, nasty and brutish”.
The commission said it was necessary for people to note that Nigeria was not a Hobbesian state where might was right.
The Hobbesian paradox is that society guarantees your freedom by limiting your freedom!
In today’s increasingly Hobbesian global environment, the EU can survive only by increasing its capacity to project power – no easy feat for an entity that was formed precisely as a repudiation of power politics.
It a classic Hobbesian world, the war against all against all – a comic dystopia Trump is building in the White House and aspires to create worldwide.
Those who were close to the Hobbesian view tended to believe themselves to have a duty to "civilize" and "modernize" the indigenous.