Leviathan

Intro After reading The Leviathan by Hobbes and the Machiavelli’s The Prince and the Discourses I would argue that the two authors have a similar view on how fear is politically relevant. What makes fear relevant to Machiavelli and Hobbes is that they believe that fear is necessary for a sovereign or a prince to stay in power. The two authors also believe that it is needed to keep the subjects in check and to keep them complacent. Today however there are people who question if fear is…

The famous political texts Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke have had a profound impact on what is seen to be the role of government in society, with the latter having more lasting influence, particularly in modern society. The former, in short, argues that men ought to submit themselves and all of their rights to an entity with absolute authority over them, and that no matter how this man, or assembly of men abuses its power, they ought not to resist…

The Purpose of law: Hobbes, white and Mill. Hobbes: Hobbes: The purpose of law, according to Hobbes is to bring stability and safety. Thomas Hobbes writes in the Leviathan a similar passage written by another Thomas in the Declaration of Independence, “All men are created equal.” This is where the parallel between the two ends. Jefferson perfected Hobbes’ thought, and set forth to help create the foundation for the nation we now know as the United States of America. According to Hobbes we are…

purpose of the article is to identify and respond to the similarities of Hobbes’ Leviathan (published 1651) and the current state of police power in bourgeois modernity. In addition to this goal, it examines the idea that the monstrous “Leviathan” enacted by our modern policing system shares many attributes (and thusly some of the monstrous attributes of) the ‘…the human dross’ that is associated with the Leviathan 's antithesis in the Bible, as well as in modern society, the ‘Behemoth’, which…

Hobbes’ maintains humans have a “natural condition,” which may be either blissful or brutish. Given such condition, Hobbes asks, how members of society to act/ought to be. Intuitively many philosophers agree members of a society existing blissfully is not only preferred, but better. And, if we grant what is better for society captures that which is good for a society, then individuals ought to act according to the promotion of this peaceful societal end. One objection to Hobbes comes from…

maintaining it. Conclusion Homo Formidolosus Fear in the political thought of Thomas Hobbes. Introduction Hobbesian "Leviathan", being a comprehensive study of humanity, both in the State of Nature and the Commonwealth, describes also the transition between the two and the reasons for it, one of the most prominent ones is, without any doubt, fear. A…

Hobbes. All people have a little bit evilness and dishonesty in their personalities. In the Leviathan Thomas Hobbes said that “No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the…

Pojman relates Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies” to Hobbes’s “Leviathan” by explaining why morality is important and what happens when it doesn’t exist. Pojman uses two quotes when relating the authors account of morality. The first one is a quote made by Piggy. Piggy asked the question “Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill” (Golding). The second quote is from the book, Leviathan. “Morality is more honored in the breach than in the observance” (Hobbes). The two quotes…

right consisteth in liberty to do or forbear, whereas Law determineth and bindeth to one of them; so that law and right differ as much as obligation and liberty, which in one and the same matter are inconsistent” (Leviathan,…

productively and effectively even within such a realistic and bleak viewpoint are much more convincing. While Hobbes’ tenant that leviathans rule in regard to the people only because they can profit from the multitude’s prosperity carries less appeal than Kant’s conception of a moral and contractually obligated ruler, the Hobbesian understanding of the reason of leviathans supports a beneficial commonwealth in both theory and practice. On the international level, too, Hobbes presents an…