The sogiologist today might agree with Thomas Hobbes "that all men are born unapt for society" and are made fit for it "not by nature but education"; that is to say, by learning painfully to adjust their claims on others to the claims others make on them. It is the discipline of society which makes them law-abiding; they learn to be just, not apprehending eternal trusths by the light of reasons, but by learning to live together Where the philosophy of Hobbes is most conspicuously deficient is in its failure to take proper account of moral obbligation. If the laws of nature are maxims of prudence, then to say that men are obliged to observe them is only to say that it reasonable that they should. Or, following another suggestions of Hobbes, it is to say that men would necessarily observe them if they say saw clearly what was to their advantage, or that they fear the evil consequences of not observing them.
Casalino Pierluigi
Casalino Pierluigi