 | Charles Rowley, Friedrich Schneider - 2004 - 1142 pages
...norms. The philosophical classics used "opinion" to accomplish this task. Hobbes, for instance, said: "...the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people..." (Hobbes, Thomas, 1682/1990, 16). Even more significantly Hume spoke of "opinion of interest" and of... | |
 | Frederick G. Whelan - 2004 - 440 pages
...66-67. 102. Hume's well-known claim echoes Hobbes's assertion, born of the English civil war, that "the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people." Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth or the Long Parliament, ed. Ferdinand Tonnies (Chicago: University of Chicago... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - 2004 - 362 pages
...commonwealth? How can this first crucial covenant be made before there exists a power to enforce covenants? 11. "The power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people.... If men know not their duty, what is there that can force them to obey the laws? An army, you will say?... | |
 | Joanne Harriet Wright - 2004 - 248 pages
...seen as an attempt to reach a wider audience with his later works.45 As he writes later in Behemoth, 'the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people.'46 Hobbes accepts that people must be convinced of the power and authority of the sovereign... | |
 | Georg Zenkert - 2004 - 472 pages
...dieser Hinsicht kann Hobbes wieder die traditionelle Formel von der Macht der Meinungen aufgreifen: „The power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and beiief of the people" (Behemoth, Chicago i990, S. i6). 8' Damit wird besonders eindringlich demonstriert,... | |
 | Ruth Zimmerling - 2005 - 330 pages
...existence of certain means, but merely the belief'm their existence. After all, as Hobbes already knew, ,,the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people." 190 Obviously, this plays an especially great role for those conceptions which focus on the availability... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, Jason L. Mast - 2006 - 340 pages
...consent, while only a power that is based on consent will be strong enough to grant security. Knowing that "the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people" and being well aware of Juvenal's problem of who will guard the guardians, the problem of "what shall force... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 pages
...influence, not so much for what they taught the people to believe but for whom they taught them to trust: "For the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people" (B 16). Few of Hobbes's intellectual descendants have been willing to claim him as a precursor, yet... | |
 | Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang, Martin Kwamina Panford - 2006 - 444 pages
...whatever form of government exists, need to be in equilibrium if they are to survive. Hobbes states that "the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people." His clarity on such political realities has been obscured only by his insistence that, without a sovereign... | |
 | Beate Jahn - 2006 - 290 pages
...self-limitation of activity by a rational sovereign. Since, as he states clearly, again in Behemoth, that 'the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people',32 the sovereign will avoid actions which too obviously threaten the interests of the citizens... | |
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For the power of the mighty hath no foundation but in the opinion and belief of the people. 
