And doesn't Hobbes' materialism and his sort of mechanistic theory of nature seem to detract from any inherent worth ? of the individual?

难道霍布斯的唯物主义和,他的自然的机械理论,似乎有损于,个人的价值吗？

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Maybe you'll now believe Hobbes if you don't believe me. So the state of nature, it's a state of insecurity, it's a state of conflict.

如果你不相信我的话，你也不一定相信霍布斯,所以自然状态,是一种不安全的状态，是一种矛盾的状态。

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I guess this is what Hobbes meant by "Nasty, short, and brutish," Or whatever the fourth was. I don't remember, but what life was in the Thirty years' War, that was the way it was.

我猜这就是霍布斯所谓的,"污秽不堪,朝不保夕,野蛮不化",第四个我记不得了,三十年战争时期的生活就是如此

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This isn't the only impulse that impels humans to be violent - Hobbes also mentions the desire for gain and the love of glory - but it is fundamental in his account of how they escape from violence.

BBC: A Point of View: A time when violence is normal