(By answering previous heading of 'Why Both the Hobbesian and Rousseauian Versions of Human History have Dire Political Implications' and stating there had not actually been a time when everyone lived in such a state from neither Hobbes's nor Rousseau's theory)
Despite all this, many modern writers treat Leviathan in the same way others treat Rousseau's Discourse - as if it were laying the groundwork for an evolutionary study of history; and although the two have completely different starting points, the results is rather similar.引自第13页
"Hobbes and Rousseau were talking through thrie hats: neither knew a thing about life before civilization" wrtes the psychologist Steven PInker who is absolutely right.
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