Özet:

This article is about Hobbes's views on the nature and civil status of people on the issues of equality, freedom and security. The assessments were made on the basis of Hobbes' thought of the law of nature. The laws of nature are the principles of mind, which prohibit things harmful to humans and aim to protect human life. In nature, everyone is equal and everyone has equal rights on everything. This causes uncertainty among people and therefore war. In addition, there is no power in nature to force people to follow the laws of nature outside their conscience. People want to preserve their lives, families and property they consider valuable for themselves and to possess them in the real sense. Thus, people established a state by transferring their rights in the state of nature to a sovereignty. Thus, the people who abandoned the evils of the nature of ignorance, barbarism and poverty, by establishing a state, have achieved peace and prosperity through the rights and freedoms that the laws recognize them.

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