Thomas Hobbes, De Cive, 1647 [ Concepts ]
… are the conditions of Society, or of Humane Peace; that is to say, (changing the words onely) what are the fundamentall Lawes of Nature. II. The greatest part of those men who have written ought concerning Commonwealths, either suppose, or … than that Men should agree to make certaine Covenants and Conditions together, which themselves should then call Lawes. Which Axiom, though received by most, is yet certainly False, and an Errour proceeding from our too slight … 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 …
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