I find Hobbes' claim regarding the unity of a covenant confounding. In Chapter Seventeen, Hobbes' refers to the covenant as a "real unity" of men who have consciously chosen to escape the natural world. However, in Chapter Sixteen Hobbes' states that the "multitude naturally is not one, but many; they cannot be understood for one." Thus, Hobbes' discredits the central pillar on which his argument stands. How is the covenant a unified contract if a multitude of men cannot achieve unity? While Hobbes' addresses this question in stating that "a multitude of men are made one person when they are by one man", this fosters the creation of the Leviathan, which is a factitious representative. How can an artificial body truly personify a multitude
