...1944. This would be going too far for Hobbes, who insisted that the state was merely "that Mortall God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence".6 But whatever else is true about a world in which such newspaper headlines are possible,...

..."authors" of their rule. This done, the multitude so united in one person, is called a commonwealth .... This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or...which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defense .... And in [the sovereign] consisted! the essence of the commonwealth; which (to define it)...

...accordingly goes on to perform the appropriate act of baptism. He announces in his gravest tones that 'this is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or...speak more reverently) of that Mortal God, to which wee owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence'.119 Hobbes's allusion is to the sea monster...

...is called a commonwealth." And as if this isn't enough to signal the sacramental parallel, he adds, "This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or...which we owe, under the Immortal God, our peace and defence."5 THE RANGE OF INCORPORATION The discussion so far has abstracted from different ways in which...

...beast that had swallowed Jonah: "The multitude so united in one person, is called a Commonwealth. . . . This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or...which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defense." Since there would be a multitude of such beasts, and since Hobbes could not Thomas Hobbes...

...künstlich geschaffenen Souveräns im Auge, wenn er von der »generation ofthat great Leviathan« spricht, »or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal...which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence«.11 Der sterbliche Gott, der »king of the proud«, erhält seine wahre Autorität allerdings...

...politic: a "well-governed Commonwealth . . . that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently, that mortal god, to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence" (1946, 112). People are rational; they are aware that, if unrestrained, they will destroy one another;...

...power vested in a commonwealth; Hobbes as a "reall Unitie," a reduction of all wills "unto one Will," the "Generation of that Great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently) of that Mortall God, to which wee owe under the Immortall God, our peace and defense. . . . And he that carryeth...

..."Artificiall Man" (L Intro: 9), but to a "Mortall God" (L: 17: 120), but he is quick to add that it is one "to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence" (L 17: 120). 28. Of course, the natural law's obligation upon a commonwealth is subject to the same...