PHL265H1 Lecture : PHL265 T Sept 20 hobbes 14,15,20,21.docx
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Hobbes chapters 14,15,20,21 and kavka reading notes. Phl265 t sept 20, 2011 and w sept 21, 2011. A commonwealth by acquisition is that where the sovereign power is acquired by force. Acquired when men singly or plurally for fear of death or bonds give up their lives and liberty to a single power. Men who choose their sovereign do so for fear of one another, and not of him who they institute. When acquired by force, men do fear their sovereign and choose him because of this. He that promises has no right in the thing promised. The rights and consequences of sovereignty are the same in both methods of acquisition (p218 {3}) By generation, that which parent has over child, is paternal. In the state of nature, the mother has dominion over the child because only she knows the father. The child ought to obey him who preserve it.