Recently, thinking of events of 2020-2021 in our dear country sent me back to the lecture hall. Like most students who were taught Philosophy at Legon from the 1970s into the 2000s, I could not help but admire the late Emeritus Professor Kwame Gyekye’s intellect, wisdom and humility. The simple, peace-loving, ever-smiling and affable Prof made difficult topics in Epistemology and Logic easy to understand with his outstanding sense of humour. He taught us about the C17th political philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, JJ Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre etc, whose influences live with us today. Hobbes (1588-1679) Reminiscing over recent happenings, my mind went back to Hobbes’ original postulate about man. Probably agreeing with Genesis 6, 5-13 in which man’s heart was described by God as wicked, evil, corrupt and violent, Hobbes described humans as being in a “state of nature” of the jungle. There, it was free-for-all survival of the fittest, reducing man’s life to being