Thomas leviathan5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() At this point, I will introduce the concept of “eco- nomic legitimacy,” claimed by the current Chinese government, as an extension of Hobbes’s justifica- tion of state coercion. Second, Hobbes does not justify coercion beyond the point where the ba- sic imperatives of security and safety are achieved. First, it only justifies the existence of governments in principle but offers no justification for particular governments and their individual acts of coercion after their initial formation. However, despite the many par- allels between Hobbes’ theory and modern politi- cal experiences, his proposition that governmental coercion is justified due to the protection it provides to its individual citizens is ultimately unsatisfactory. Hobbes’ state of nature in which man wages a perpetual war of all against all is a chilling reflection of war torn China in the early 1900s. In this case study, we will examine modern China as a representative of non-liberal states that seem to support Hobbes’ theory in Leviathan. ![]()
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