The Recipe of Everyone Seeking Peace Is a Recipe for War

Hobbes famously chillingly called the war of all against all a nightmare that in some ways was Europe in the first half of the 17th century. For Hobbes seeking peace is a recipe for war because we cannot agree on what counts as peace there is something we can agree on to let one person decide for all of us what counts aspeace. The magic of the arrangement it's mechanical but it's almost alchemical it's turning something that doesn't exist into gold if everyone agrees to make that transfer the person with whom the right to decide on peace rests then has the power to force everyone else to abide by his or her definition of peace. We have all handed over the power at