Hobbes

Thomas was an English philosopher in the fifteenth century. He was best known for his political philosophy his book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. He believe every living thing creature only obeyed the laws of individual survival (A.K.A eat or be eaten or survival of the fittest). And also that for all humans do nothing unless it affects their own self interest, like lets say theirs a burning building and their is a little girl inside do you save her because it is the right thing to do or do you do it so you get recognized as a hero . One of Hobbes most famous quotes was "the voluntary act of every man shows some good to himself" in normal terms it means no one will do anything unless he benefits somehow. Hobbes recognized the state of an artificial monster which restricts the little freedom there is in this world and flaunts the power over the individual but Hobbes justified the existence of the political power by contrasting it to the well known "state of nature" also totally dominated by scarcity and fear, like the Elmo riot of 04 it was Christmas eve and all was about because a brand new tickle me Elmo was gonna come out. People were so desperate for tickle me Elmo there was a riot and an innocent women got trampled to death (and remember kids Elmo can kill). See there was scarcity of Elmo`s and a fear that they would run out they got desperate and went back to primal instinct get the prime objective and let nothing stop you which proves my theory. Eat it Locke >:-|)