Fetscher: Gesellschaftsvertrag

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„Der Hobbesche Gesellschafts-(Unterwerfungs-)vertrag hat einen absoluten Rechtsverzicht der Einzelnen zum Inhalt, der Rousseausche eine moralische Selbstverpflichtung.“ (p. 109) #Fetscher #Hobbes #Rousseau #Gesellschaftsvertrag

Hobbes: Laws of Nature

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„For the Lawes of Nature (as Justice, Equity, Modesty, Mercy, and (in summe) Doing To Others, As Wee Would Be Done To,) if themselves, without the terrour of some Power, to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our naturall Passions, that carry us to Partiality, Pride, Revenge, and the like.“ (p. 340) #Hobbes #LawsOfNature

Hobbes: A Mans Right

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„To Lay Downe a mans Right to any thing, is to Devest himselfe of the Liberty, of hindring another of the benefit of his own Right to the same. For he that renounceth, or passeth away his Right, giveth not to any other man a Right which he had not before; because there is nothing to which every man had not Right by Nature: but onely standeth out of his way, that he may enjoy his own originall Right, without hindrance from him; not without hindrance from another. So that the effect which redoundeth to one man, by another mans defect of Right, is but so much diminution of impediments to the use of his own Right originall.“ (p. 287) #Hobbes #right

Hobbes: Common Wealth

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„The finall Cause, End, or Designe of men, (who naturally love Liberty, and Dominion over others,) in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, (in which wee see them live in Common-wealths,) is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby; that is to say, of getting themselves out from that miserable condition of Warre, which is necessarily consequent (as hath been shewn) to the naturall Passions of men, when there is no visible Power to keep them in awe, and tye them by feare of punishment to the performance of their Covenants, and observation of these Lawes of Nature“. (p. 389) #Hobbes #CommonWealth #War #LawsOfNature