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Comment: “The end of obedience is protection.” (Thomas Hobbes).

  • UPSC 1993
  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence comes from chapter 21 of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651), "Of the Liberty of Subjects": wherever a man sees protection, either in his own or in another's sword, nature directs his obedience to it. The "Review and Conclusion" says the book was written to show the mutual relation between protection and obedience. The maxim…

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