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SECTION I
Q. No. 1: Answer in not more than two sentences
20 Marks - 2 marks each
1.Name any one feature of the state of nature as given by Thomas Hobbes. What is the view of Hobbes on the nature of political obligation?[2]
Answer
One feature of the state of nature: it is a condition of war of every man against every man, in which there is no industry, no agriculture, no arts and no letters, no property, and no notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, because "where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice". Hobbes's summary is that the life of man in it is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".
Hobbes's view of political obligation: it is absolute, unconditional and unlimited. Men covenant with one another to surrender their right of self-government to a common power; the sovereign is not a party to that covenant and is therefore bound by nothing and can commit no injustice, since he is himself the author of law and justice. There is no right of resistance and no right of revolution, because any resistance would return society to the state of nature, which is worse than any tyranny.
The single exception: since the whole purpose of the covenant is self-preservation, a man may refuse to kill himself, to accuse himself or to fight where his own life is immediately at stake, and the obligation lapses if the sovereign can no longer protect him, protection and obedience being correlative.
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