[评论] 离线：医学为和平
摘要
托马斯·霍布斯（1588–1679）最著名的是他在《利维坦》（1651）中的那句话：“人的一生孤独、贫困、卑污、残忍而短促。”这一论断在17世纪的英格兰或许属实，但得益于卫生体系的演进与扩展，如今对许多人而言已非如此，尽管显然并非对所有人。然而，仅抽出这句话会错失霍布斯关于人性本质的更广阔观点。他认为，如果没有一个统治社会的“共同权力”，我们的自然倾向便是“那种被称为战争的状态……每个人反对每个人的战争”。
English
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) is most famous for his line in Leviathan (1651) that, “the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”. That proposition may have been true in 17th-century England, but, thanks to the evolution and expansion of health systems, it is not so today for many, although obviously not all. But abstracting that line alone is to miss Hobbes’ wider views about the nature of human being. He believed that without a “common power” ruling over society, our natural tendency is “that condition which is called war…of every man against every man”.