I think that a mistaken belief that some people have about Hobbes's "State of Nature" is that it is a world with no government. This, I believe is not true. When Hobbes refers to the "State of Nature", he is referring to the natural form of society, which includes a state. We know that the state is a natural development because of the arguments set forth in Aristotle's "Politics." Therefore, in the "State of Nature", there is still a state in the political sense of the word.
This supports my statement that people can indeed get along with each other in the "State of Nature." As we have seen many times in history, republics and non-oppressive governments do work, and indeed produce the most successful empires, just look at the Roman Republic or the United States.
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