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Arash Abizadeh on Thomas Hobbes' Ethics

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The State Capacity of the Sovereign

Hobbs thinks that in order to escape the state of nature, which for him, is of war, you set up an absolute sovereign. Whatever laws the sovereign decides are the laws of the society, that's what justice will be. So we better choose the benevolent dictator when you set the sovereign up. And so in fact, hobson visioned that it would be prudent for the sovereign to leave many liberties, a very wide scope for subjects to them themselves decide. I can see that in terms of building up from the most simple elements to the complexity of astate with agreements between people and giving up enough freedom to allow for peace to be possibleBetween human beings who have a tendency to

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