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What are the legal philosophies of Thomas Hobbes?

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It is best to view Hobbes (1588–1679) as the father of modern “legal positivism”—the doctrine that (in Hobbes' words) “where there is no law there is no justice,” and that the so-called “state of nature” is a moral vacuum in which force and fraud are “cardinal virtues” (Hobbes 1957, 307, 86). read more

William Harris has aptly applied Hobbes' ideas to Constitutional theory. In Harris' reading of Hobbes, the sovereign has a semiotic role, in two senses. read more

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