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Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Morality in the Hobbesian System

For Hobbes, it actually seemed like there was no morality in the state of nature. There is no justice and injustice until there is a state to say what is just and unjust. This is just an argument that there has to be something like morality even in the radically relativist, authority-based system that Hobbes puts forward.

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