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...... While certainly suicide is an objectionable path to resolution, the example is helpful in bringing a focus to the discussion. Locke is a long distance from Hobbes on the nature of free will, with the latter asserting that society may function only through subjugation of individual will to a real and materialist-based power of authoritarianism. (Note: Briefly, it should be qualified that materialism in this case refers to a power derived of wealth, ownership, gatekeeping of resources/property and the capacity to levy armed authority over a population). To this extent, Hobbes endorses a social hierarchy which is also very much concerned with the relevance of materialist-derived power in a way that slants his view of democracy toward economic imperatives, such as the defense of ones property against the irrational oppression of theft
This is compelling because it casts Hobbes in an unusual position of balance, or of hypocrisy, depending upon ones moral disposition. Though Hobbes is a clear and strong advocate for the imperative provided by the Church and the moral inherency of an empowered central government, he also speaks on all affairs of justice and state law without the restrain of presumed moral absolutes. This does distinguish him

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