GOVT2112 Lecture 5: WK 5 Hobbes and Locke
Document Summary
Ways around weaknesses- either by secret machination or by confederacy . Equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. Men are equal in seeing themselves as better then others. Every man should value the other the same rate he sets upon himself. What are the three main reasons that enmity arises between people: competition: invade for gain using violence to make themselves masters of other men"s persons , diffidence; for safety, glory: for reputation. What constitutes the state of war? war= result of no common power. War exists not only in battle but in the tract of time. During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition called war. Where there is no common power there is no law. In such a condition there is no place for industry because the fruist thereof is uncertain. Nature should render men apt to invade and destroy one another.