Thomas Hobbes and Continual Wars
Abstract
According to Hobbesian view, there was no common power which could dominate human beings in the state of nature. As there was no authority, humans could get what they wanted. They gave some of their rights to the Leviathan. The condition was protection from outsiders. States are in state of war because there is no common authority. Unlike human beings, states do not give up their authority for protection because the conditions of human and states are different. As there is no common authority which can dominates all states, international sphere is anarchic. Many authors and scholars criticised his thoughts but the others accepted his ideas. This article seeks an answer of the question of whether continual presence of war proves Thomas Hobbes.