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To: Politicalkiddo

Locke versus Hobbes
http://jim.com/hobbes.htm

Hobbes:
Men cannot know good and evil, and in consequence can only live in peace together by subjection to the absolute power of a common master, and therefore there can be no peace between kings. Peace between states is merely war by other means.

No right to rebel. “there can happen no breach of covenant on the part of the sovereign; and consequently none of his subjects, by any pretence of forfeiture, can be freed from his subjection.” The ruler’s will defines good and evil for his subjects. The King can do no wrong, because lawful and unlawful, good and evil, are merely commands, merely the will of the ruler.


86 posted on 10/25/2015 1:37:32 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Thanks for the sources. :)


90 posted on 10/25/2015 2:11:41 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("'Return to me, and I will return to you,' says the LORD Almighty." -Malachi 3:7)
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