HIST 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Positive Liberty, Thomas Hobbes, Negative Liberty
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-- equality of powers in the state of nature, and they desire same things. Homo homini lupus --- man is wolf to man. --passion: fear of death; reason: articles of peace. -->the laws of nature. -- the right of nature/natural right: the liberty each man has to use his own power and reason to do anything . -- first of all, everyone has to use reason to preserve his own life which is forbidden to be destructed. -- in gospel"s words: whatsoever you require that other should do to you, that do ye to them . -- one man transfers his own rights while waiting others do in the same way. --the mutual transferring of right is called contract. -- under natural state, no way; words are powerless. The first to perform, the first to fail. -- so there must be a power to secure the contract and punish those who violate it.
