Leviathan

I found this article very interesting in the way that it resembled our own law system today. Hobbes spoke of how we “should not do to others that we do not want done to us” a statement that I was taught as a child, as were many of many friends. He also spoke of the laws of nature which we can find in our law system today. These laws of natures are more like just every day morals that the majority of people have been taught since birth: don’t break your promises or don’t act on the idea of an eye for an eye. I also found the arbiter laws very interesting, considering we practice those every day in our judicial branch. While this article was a little long for my liking, I did in fact enjoy its content. I also thoroughly enjoyed all the comparisons I was able to make from Hobbes’s Leviathan to America’s present day legal system.