Public Administration in Ancient India c7.10

c7.10

In the opinion of Hobbes, “The Finall Cause, End, or Designe of men (who naturally love Liberty and Dominion over others), in the introduction of the restraint upon themselves (in which we see them live in Commonwealths), 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 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 those Laws of Nature . . .” Leviathan, Ch. XVII.