Monthly Archives: June 2011
The Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes), and (Tocqueville) (Rousseau)
Hobbes‘s insistence on absolutism : “impose limitation on the authority of the government is to invite irresoluble disputes over whether it has overstepped those limits. If each person is to decide for herself whether the government should be obeyed, factional disagreement—and … Continue reading
The Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
“THE office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was trusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people, to which he is obliged by … Continue reading
The Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
“To make covenants with brute beasts is impossible, because not understanding our speech, they understand not, nor accept of any translation of right, nor can translate any right to another: and without mutual acceptation, there is no covenant” (Hobbes, Thomas, … Continue reading
The Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
“A sin is not only a transgression of a law, but also any contempt of the legislator. For such contempt is a breach of all his laws at once, and therefore may consist, not only in the commission of a … Continue reading
The Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
“… infirmity of a Commonwealth is the immoderate greatness of a town, when it is able to furnish out of its own circuit the number and expense of a great army; as also the great number of corporations, which are as … Continue reading
The Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
“..the agreement of these creatures is natural; that of men is by covenant only, which is artificial: and therefore it is no wonder if there be somewhat else required, besides covenant, to make their agreement constant and lasting; which is … Continue reading
The Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
“This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man, in such manner as if every man should say to … Continue reading
The Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
“The only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in such sort as that by their own … Continue reading
Man in the State of Nature (Thomas Hobbes)
“THE right of nature, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; … Continue reading
Man in the State of Nature (Thomas Hobbes)
“Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish … Continue reading
