Leviathan

Explain the following lines from paragraph 13, as well as how they contribute to the passages overall meaning

"Where there is no common
power, there is no law; where no law, no
injustice. Force and fraud are in war the
two cardinal virtues. Justice and
injustice are none of the faculties
neither of the body nor mind. If they
were, they might be in a man that were
alone in the world, as well as his senses
and passions."

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I think Hobb's is stating that there is unity in government. It is Contractarianism: the school of thought that used a hypothetical social contract that people agreed to in order to escape the state of nature. This contract established a form of society and government, although the exact form of government differs depending on the theorist. Other prominent contractarians include John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Rawls.

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