Human nature according to Thomas Hobbes :
Thomas Hobbes was a political thinker of England. In his book, ‘Leviathan’, he propagated the social contract theory. Hobbes, in his book, has described the negative nature of humans. According to him, a person is basically an unsocial creature, habitually solitary, selfish, arrogant and quarrelsome. He loves power.
He indulges in strife for his happiness and fulfillment of his interests and for success in this strife, he seeks refuge in lies, deception, violence, etc. According to Hobbes, a person, has good qualities too but these are not the part of his nature. In this way, according to Thomas Hobbes, a person was basically poor, mean and wild in nature.
