The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Hobbes's problem

Contracts without the sword are but words, he says.

In the state of nature, he says, that power is lacking and desperately missed.

But the compact that creates the Leviathan is different.

In being sworn it creates the sword by which it will be enforced.

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