Hobbesian

Hence, in Hobbesian terms, it was that form of war which encompasses the natural state of man.

Balkinization 2006

This might be called a Hobbesian example of humour; the 17th-century philosopher declared that laughter was one of mankind's worst attributes because it boosted self-esteem at the expense of the less fortunate, in lives that were generally nasty, brutish and short.

Adrian Monck 2008

Making generous use of military metaphors, 'Hobbesian' feminists declare politics and political theory as a paradigm case of the oppressor and the oppressed (see Atkinson, 1970: 37, in Elshtain, 1982b: 611).

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

By the time I managed to extricate myself from their loving embrace, nearly three years later, the partnership had for other reasons descended into the kind of Hobbesian war of all against all from which only the lawyers emerge smiling.

The Management Myth 2006

By the time I managed to extricate myself from their loving embrace, nearly three years later, the partnership had for other reasons descended into the kind of Hobbesian war of all against all from which only the lawyers emerge smiling.

The Management Myth 2006

Lacking trust, each agent is forced into a kind of Hobbesian calculation about the behavior of those around him or her, watching for covert strategies in which the other is trying to take advantage of oneself.

Trust Daniel Little 2008

Lacking trust, each agent is forced into a kind of Hobbesian calculation about the behavior of those around him or her, watching for covert strategies in which the other is trying to take advantage of oneself.

Archive 2008-08-01 Daniel Little 2008

Is that kind of Hobbesian environment really what VWs should aspire to being?

Law is code 2004

Is that kind of Hobbesian environment really what VWs should aspire to being?

Law is code 2004

Americans, meanwhile, are mired in history, in a dangerous "Hobbesian" world of interests and conflicts, where the law of the jungle applies and survival rests on armed power.

America and the World Judt, Tony 2003