Thomas Hobbes: Food and health as basic determinants of prosperity.

• In Event: Revisiting Thomas Hobbes: a Hobbesian Approach to Contemporary Problems

Brief Overview

In Hobbes, hunger would be, along with the desire to excrete, the only natural, pre-political passions. The overcoming of hunger and the administration of health that is required due to excretion are the first signs of prosperity.

Author

• Gonzalo Bustamante, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez