1. Political Thinkers - Hobbes and Spinoza
... '(Spinoza, 1951) and therefore the greater are to overpower the weaker in pursuit of self-preservation. This is man's sovereign right to the power of nature is the power of God, which has sovereign right over all things and it is a sovereign law to self-preserve. The only tool to do this given to man through nature is his ˜unaided impulses ... to help preserve the rest of mankind and therefore it is our duty as individuals to reprimand anyone who ˜declares himself to live by another rule than reason set by God' as he has declared war against mankind and you must, not unlike the view...
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- Grade Level: Graduate