POL200Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Study Questions: Egalitarianism
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Hobbes argues that the state of nature" is unavoidable as it is implemented by our desires, which we cannot necessarily control or expect anyone else to control, as we have no other direction than our. The natural human hunger for power will always threaten the contract. Humans, by nature, desire power, and will result to violence regardless of whether or not we understand that it"s such an ill condition. The sovereign operates through fear; the threat of punishment reinforces the mandates of the laws of nature, thus ensuring the continued operation of the social contract. Chapter 18 : although the sovereign is our servant and exists only by our authority, we are forbidden to call him to account for his performance of his duties. In creating the sovereign, even if he is our servant and exists only by our authority, we have already decided to hand all of our power over to him.
