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History of Ideas: Hobbes on the State
TALKING POLITICS
The Sovereign Is the Only One Who Decides
Hobbes says there is no contract with the sovereign. The only covenant is between the multitude and someone decide for us, he writes. Hobbes' critics said this was out of the frying pan into the fire - who would want to sacrifice our rights for this? But it's not totalitarianism but absolutism is not totalitarianism according to Hockney.
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