Thomas Hobbes, De Cive, 1647 [ Concepts ]
… but in the mutuall fear [2] they had of each other. III. The cause of mutuall fear consists partly in the naturall equality of men, partly in their mutuall will of hurting: whence it comes to passe that we can neither expect from … therefore among themselves are by nature equall; the De Cive Chapter I. Of the state of men without Civill Society 8 inequality we now discern, hath its spring from the Civill Law. IV. All men in the State of nature have a desire, and will … to hurt, but not proceeding from the same cause, neither equally to be condemn'd; for one man according to that naturall equality which is among us, permits as much to others, as he assumes to himself (which is an argument of a temperate man, …
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