...tamed if temporary associations are to be turned into more permanent ones. In Leviathan, Hobbes argues, "[t]he only way to erect such a common power as may...invasion of foreigners and the injuries of one another" is to give up their power to a sovereign, who may then "reduce all their wills [. . .] unto one will."125...

...6,31: 12,22: Röm 13,8-22: Gal 5,14) 21 (Vgl: Psalm 34, 15) 22 Vgl: Hobbes: Leviathan, S. 156) „ The only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend themfrom the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries ofone another and thereby to secure them in such...

...under one sovereign. One passage from Leviathan deserves to be quoted at length. According to Hobbes: The only way to erect such a Common Power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of Forraigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them...

...require "a common power, to keep them in awe, and to direct their actions to the common benefit." And [t]he only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in...

...governance in a world of their making. Two Different Approaches to the Design of Public Order Hobbes: The only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in...

...that condition which is called Warre."12 So what is the way out? According to Hobbes, "The only way is to erect such a Common Power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of Forraigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them...

...famous description of the moment of our caterpillar/butterfly metamorphosis from animal to spirit: The only way to erect such a Common Power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of Foreigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in...