Hobbes argues that the sovereign’s power has no limit, as they are responsible for the security and defense of their subjects at whatever cost deemed necessary. He advocated for the monarchy being reinstituted as an absolute authority; it would be the guiding head, or “artificial soul”, of the “artificial man” composed of the commonwealth that is “of greater stature and strength than the natural [man]”. This Leviathan is crucial for the maintenance of peace. Man’s “natural condition” is equal “in the faculties of the body and mind” as what someone lacks in strength they may make up in wits, and they are naturally in competition for gain, safety, and reputation in a state of nature that is innately violent. Hobbes postulates that without “a
