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: Disconnected power from traditional morality. He argued that a ruler must understand how to use both law (man) and force (beast) to maintain the state, regardless of personal ethics. Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives (R...
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: Saw power as a restless desire that only ends in death. In his view, people give up individual power to a "Leviathan" (the state) to avoid a life that is "nasty, brutish, and short." Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives (R...
: If "might makes right" is rejected, what moral obligations do the powerful have toward the powerless?