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This means that the purpose of laws is to give the citizens a certain duty that must be fulfilled in order for society to function properly. If this is to successfully work through laws then everything else should run by laws including the Crown and Church that have very important duties...
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If this is to successfully work through laws then everything else should run by laws including the Crown and Church that have very important duties. The entire state should be run on duties that everyone must fairly fulfill. Therefore the state exists for the citizen (Gray, 45)...
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Hobbes; Leviathan Hobbes wrote the Leviathan and divided it into four different sections. For sake of brevity, I will only discuss the second book in, which Hobbes discusses the Commonwealth...	3 / 627
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Hobbes and Sovereignty In constructing a social contract Hobbes believes each individual must state "I authorize and give up my right of governing my selfe, to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him, and authorize all his actions in like manner," (Hobbes; 87)...	1 / 140
The State of Nature and its Implications for Civilization in Hobbes and Rousseau Implications for Civilization in Hobbes and Rousseau In his Leviathan Thomas Hobbes expresses a philosophy of civilization which is both practical and just and stems from a clear moral imperative...	6 / 1651
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analysis Thomas Hobbes's claim "a state of nature is, or would be, a state of war of everyone against everyone." In order to truly understand the logic behind Hobbes's claim, we must first understand his point of view of human nature. The key element in Hobbes's view on human nature was the importance of desires...	5 / 1372