For the weekend, please complete the following...
Now that you have the general idea of Hobbes' view of human nature, please consider the following questions (using your readings) and write down answers:
1. What do people actually give up when they enter into the social contract?
2. Look up the word "expedient". Is Hobbes authorizing Machiavelli's standard of the "end justifies the means" for the leader?
3. Look up the word "sovereign". What does it mean to have sovereign power?
4. In reading about the 2 different ways the sovereign gains power, are the people submitting by force or by choice? Be careful!
Answer Interpretive Questions 3-5
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