Thomas Hobbes | of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning

question 74

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Thomas Hobbes | Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery; Of the First and Second Natural Laws and of Contracts
Hobbes first discusses the state of war in which men live before a common power can bring them together in civil society. By virtue of the natural and fundamental laws of nature, peace and cooperation can be attained only when man is willing to renounce a right to benefit someone else. A contract is the mutual transferring of right. Only then can lawful and just civilization develop.
-Hobbes distinguishes between the right to do as one decides and ___________, which may impede one's decision to act.

• A) law
• B) liberty
• C) power
• D) reason

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