Editing Bellum omnium contra omnes (section)

{{Short description|Latin phrase coined by Thomas Hobbes}}
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[[File:Bellum omnium contra omnes.png|thumb|The ''Præfatio'' (Preface) of ''De Cive'' where the phrase {{Lang|la|bellum omnium contra omnes}} appears for the first time.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb__VxUMFGXmYkC/page/n110 <!-- pg=11 quote="bellum o-mnium contra omnes". --> See] on [[Google Books]].</ref> Taken from the revised edition printed in 1647 at Amsterdam (''apud L. Elzevirium'').<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb__VxUMFGXmYkC See] on Google Books.</ref>]]
'''{{lang|la|Bellum omnium contra omnes}}''', a [[Latin language|Latin]] phrase meaning "'''the war of all against all'''", is the description that [[Thomas Hobbes]] gives to [[Human condition|human existence]] in the [[state of nature|state-of-nature]] [[thought experiment]] that he conducts in ''[[De Cive]]'' (1642) and ''[[Leviathan (Hobbes book)|Leviathan]]'' (1651). The common modern English usage is a war of "'''each against all'''" where war is rare and terms such as "competition" or "struggle" are more common.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/71/0425.html|title=Each Against All|author=Charles Fourier|author-link=Charles Fourier|editor=Upton Sinclair|editor-link=Upton Sinclair| year=1915|edition=1st |work=[[Bartleby.com]]|accessdate=21 April 2013}}</ref>