… on the origin of State, and provides a rationale for his theory of absolute sovereignty. The refutation of natural sociability had political and anthropological consequences. It gave precedence to negative sentiments—fear and … the fundamental law of society, ‘to seek peace, and follow it’ (Lev, ch. 15, 87), permit the defining of ‘sociable’ and ‘unsociable.’ Hobbes’ notion of sociability was conceived against a background of weariness over the war, and the fear of … of society. When addressing philia , Hobbes highlights the impossibility of definitively solving the problem of unsociable sociability in man. We know the fate of these notions under the scrutiny of the ‘selfish philosophers’ of the …