...as if he is saying that it is the power of coercion that sustains contracts, as in his remark that "the validity of covenants begins not but with the...civil power, sufficient to compel men to keep them" (201). But then what sustains that civil power? His point is the more subtle one that the presence...

...Commonwealth, thete nothing is Unjust, So that the natute of fustice, consisteth in keeping of valid Covenants: but the Validity of Covenants begins not but with the Constitution of a Civil Powet, sufficient to compel men to keep them: And then it is also that Ptoptiety begins. The Fool hath...

...es que se produce la justicia.24 "[T]he nature of justice consisteth in keeping of valid covenants, but the validity of covenants begins not but with...of a civil power sufficient to compel men to keep them."25 La justicia es una regla de la razón que nos prohibe violar cualquier ley de la naturaleza....

...would still lead to dangerously aggressive acts towards each other.53 He stated: The Foole hath Sayd in his heart, there is no such thing as Justice; and sometimes also with his tongue; seriously alleaging, that every mans conservation, and contentment, being committed to his own care, there could...

...apparatus of the State. So that ". . . the nature of justice, consisteth in keeping of valid covenants; but the validity of covenants begins not but with...men to keep them: and then it is also that propriety begins."34 Other than the simple posit of the necessity of sovereign control over the machinery of...

...clear both from its genealogy and also from usages in other contexts. Thomas Hobbes informs us that "the validity of covenants begins not but with the...civil power sufficient to compel men to keep them" (1958, 120). The validity of the written word itself originally derived from the power of the medieval...

...Common-wealth, there nothing is Unjust. So that the nature of Justice, consisteth in keeping of valid Covenants; but the Validity of Covenants begins not but with the Constitution of a Civill Power, sufficient to compell men to keep them: And then it is also that Propriety begins. The...

...Hobbes thinks it can be compatible with one's interest to keep promises in society: "The fool hath said in his heart: 'there is no such thing as justice' . . . and therefore also to make or not make, keep or not keep, covenants was not against reason, when it conduced...

...image or species ... is not in the object, but the color is. He [Hobbes] begins thus: The fool hath said in his heart there is no such thing as justice;...conservation and contentment being committed to his care, there could be no reason why every man might not do what he thought conduced thereunto; and therefore...

...in order to identify this particular argument) . The problem is put by Hobbes as that 'the foole has said in his heart, there is no such thing as justice; and sometimes also with his tongue' [15.4, p. 72] ; the foole thinks that 'breach' of covenants, which he allows 'may be called injustice',...