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    1. Thomas Hobbes believed that in a "state of nature" without government, life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" as individuals would be in constant competition with one another for resources. 2. To escape this state of nature and establish peace and security, individuals enter into a "social contract" agreeing to form a central authority, the sovereign, and give it power over them. 3. Hobbes argued this social contract was necessary to establish order and civil laws, as without a sovereign there could be no laws or justice, only the natural laws of survival in the state of nature.

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    1. Thomas Hobbes believed that in a "state of nature" without government, life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" as individuals would be in constant competition with one another for resources. 2. To escape this state of nature and establish peace and security, individuals enter into a "social contract" agreeing to form a central authority, the sovereign, and give it power over them. 3. Hobbes argued this social contract was necessary to establish order and civil laws, as without a sovereign there could be no laws or justice, only the natural laws of survival in the state of nature.

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    1. Thomas Hobbes believed that in a "state of nature" without government, life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" as individuals would be in constant competition with one another for resources. 2. To escape this state of nature and establish peace and security, individuals enter into a "social contract" agreeing to form a central authority, the sovereign, and give it power over them. 3. Hobbes argued this social contract was necessary to establish order and civil laws, as without a sovereign there could be no laws or justice, only the natural laws of survival in the state of nature.

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    Philosophies of Thomas Hobbes

    (Government and Politics)

    Objectives:

    1. To explain the key concepts in Thomas Hobbes thoughts.


    2. To understand the “State of Nature” and “The Social Contact Theory” in relation to governance
    and political views.

    Bodies in Motion: The Object of Thought


    3 Major Types of Bodies
    • Physical bodies (stones)
    • Human body
    • The body politic

    Motion is the key concept in Hobbes thoughts.

    He will not admit that anything such a spirit or God exists if this terms refer to beings that
    have no bodies or are incorporeal.

    “By the visible things in this world, and their admirable order, a man may conceive there is a
    cause of them which men call God: and yet not have an idea or image of him in his mind.”
     Substance, he argued, could only be corporeal.

    The State of Nature


    In this state of nature all human are equal and equally have the right to whatever they
    consider necessary for survival.
     People are capable of hurting their neighbors and taking what they judge they need for their
    own protection.
     The driving force in a person is the will to survive.
     People moving against each other.
     People will call good whatever they love.
     People will call evil whatever they hate.

    There is no obligation for people to respect others or that there is no morality in the traditional
    sense of goodness and justice.

    Law of Nature (Natural Law)


    1. Everyone ought to seek peace and follow it.
    2. A man be willing, when others a so too, as far forth as for peace, and defense of himself he shall
    think it necessary, to lay down his right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against
    other men, as he would allow other men against himself.”

    Obligation on the State of Nature


    Do we really need to obey?
    Hobbes, answers that these laws are always binding, in the state of nature as well as in civil society.
    “the laws of nature oblige in foro interno; that is to say, they are bind to a desire they should take
    place; but in foro externo; that is, to putting them in act, not always.”
     We ought to act in good faith.

    Hobbes was aware that anarchy is the logical outcome of egotistical individual all deciding
    how best to survive.
     He wants to create an artificial person, the great leviathan.

    The Social Contract


     An agreement between individuals.
     To give up all their rights to great leviathan and allow him to decide their actions.

    The contract;
    1. The parties to the contact are individuals who promise each other to handover their rights to
    govern themselves to sovereign and the citizens.
    2. The sovereign can be either “this man” or “this assembly of men.”

    Civil Law versus Natural Law


     Law begins only when there is a sovereign.
     If there is no sovereign, there is no law.
     Without the power to enforce, covenants are “mere words.”
     “There can be no unjust law.”

    “To the care of the sovereign, belongs the making of good laws. But what is a good law? By
    good law, I mean not a just law: for no law can be unjust.”

    Reasons;
    1. Justice means obeying the law.
    2. When a, sovereign makes a law, it is as thought the people are making the law, and what they
    agreed upon cannot be unjust.

    If law means the sovereign’s command and if justice means obeying the law, there can be
    no unjust law. But there can be a bad law.
     The sovereign has the power to judge what is for the safety of the people.

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