1. Political Thinkers - Hobbes and Spinoza
... intelligent enough to at least know what they are doing and not just blindly pursuing their desires, but because they know they are all equal and there is no greater person or power that has gained or has been given sovereign authority to keep them from doing as they like, which then ledescending into this state of ˜Warre' with every man ... that there needs to be a body to exact the laws or all other laws would ˜be in vain if there were nobody to exact the law and thereby preserve the innocent and restrain offenders' (Lock,1986 ) This is the only time man can use lawfully do harm o...
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