Thomas Hobbes - On The Citizen (De Cive)

Thomas Hobbes' main concepts were that people in the ''State of Nature'', were without law and rowdy and violent. He was himself writing in very violent times also and this needs to be taken into account. His theory is identified by having emphasis on a strong state, and that man in his nature cannot be trusted, and that man is selfish. Hobbes also had a belief in what he calls the ''Self Preservation Theory'', which he believes every person, man and woman is defined by the idea that they do everything and anything to preserve their own life from the consequence of death. De Cive was published by Hobbes when he was aged 54. He had a lot of his work published later on in his life, and he himself lived to a fine age of 91.