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This 10 page paper contemplates the argument of the Fool in Chapter XV of Hobbes' The Leviathan. Many quotes are included. No additional sources cited.
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presents, but rejects, the Fools argument. Here, the third law of nature if first explored, where Hobbes contends that men perform the covenants that they make. The fool objects to
this law and suggests that men do not really keep their covenants and in fact it really does not make sense do so. Hobbes disagrees with the Fool. In fact,
that is no surprise and the Fool is not real and only a subject of Hobbes imagination designed to demonstrate both sides of the argument.
The argument at hand is one that is not so unusual. Many people argue whether or not men are good by nature. Every day, people complain about dishonesty and that
the world has changed. Yet, if a seventy year old man contends that the world was much more honest thirty years ago, that argument would be suspect. The world is
hundreds of years old. Why would it suddenly change? Mans nature is not that changeable. When addressing the issue of covenants, and whether or not man is likely to
obey them, Hobbes ideas on the nature of man play a significant role. After all, if the nature of man is that he is good and honest, the covenant will
be kept. If not, then it is more likely than not that it will be broken. Hobbes (1651) pays a great deal of attention to the nature of man.
He explains: "Nature hath made men so equall, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there bee found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or
of quicker mind than another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himselfe
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