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I have to disagree here:

while it is accurate to say that Hobbes argued for the surrender of a substantial amount of individual freedoms to the sovereign, the interpretation that it involves surrendering all freedoms is more nuanced. Hobbes's main goal was the establishment of a powerful authority to prevent the chaos of the state of nature, and he believed that the sovereign should have extensive, if not absolute, power to achieve this.

(I double checked with consensus AI research engine.)

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Alex M. Pawlowski
Alex M. Pawlowski

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