of everyone against everyone else--

以避免人与人之间的敌对状态
a powerful proposition.

这个观点很强大
Again, I would think probably half of the people in this classroom,

再说一次我要你们认真思考
when really think hard about it,

然后这个教室里大约一半的人
do believe Hobbes's argument;

会同意霍布斯的观点
half of them would be violently opposed to the argument.

另一半则会坚决反对这个观点
So it's a very nice topic,

这是个很棒的话题
to have heated discussions in the discussion sections.

在讨论课上大家可以畅所欲言
Leviathan is a sea-monster:

利维坦是一个海怪
the state or the sovereign.

在这里指的是一个国家一个君王
We need to keep order as such.

我们要借它来维持秩序
Okay.

好了