Reason, Grace, and Law: Suarez and Hobbes on Coercion, Church, and State | Prof. Thomas Pink
The Thomistic Institute
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The Limits of Power
Hobbes says you can't have a power that operates continuously. It's part of the very nature of power that if it's present in form to produce an outcome, it must actually operate. If someone had a power simultaneously to raise their hand or lower it, and they had enough power to do either, they'd have to let aside both powers and ones. That's impossible. Of course, contingent power is all about power being present without necessary producing. The only power in nature is necessitating efficient causation. Our action simply occurs as an necessitated effect in the process. You are likely to give a very analogous account of power involved,. modulating all the differences between the naturalness
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